Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns-for-butter Five-Year Plan (TIME, Oct. 14), Juan Peron last week picked a man tabbed by the U.S. Blue Book as a wartime A is agent. His choice: Barcelona-born José Figuerola, who got his start by blueprinting Government-bossed trade unions for Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera in the '20s. In Argentina, where he took out citizenship papers in 1930, chubby Jose Figuerola kept up the good work as Juan Perón's Man Friday and expert on labor matters. Argentines now saw -his fine Iberian hand in almost every paragraph...
...first U.S. fight, Cerdan proved to be what is known in the trade as a "club fighter," always boring in, fists flying. The crowd loved it, especially when one of his haymakers made Abrams' knees buckle. Cerdan's favorite target: George Abrams' stomach...
...sleep as we always did. We're just giving up our spare time." Shrewd Dave Stern, first publisher to sign a Guild contract (TIME, Nov. 18), was far from ready to dicker on Guild terms ($100 a week for experienced reporters). He bought space in other newspapers and trade journals to announce the biggest November advertising and circulation in the Record's history...
...Annie, Dick Tracy, Terry, etc.) as cunningly as his anti-Roosevelt campaigns, built a monster circulation (now 2,400.000) for his New York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland, dipped into the year-long correspondence over it that passed between The Chief and his men, let the trade look over the shoulder of an 83-year-old journalistic genius at work...
...votes of all reviewers. The best that could be said was that 1946 furnished spectacular cash-register successes. Betty MacDonald's cackling (1945) hen epic, The Egg and I, went to some 1,200,000 copies; Peace of Mind, Joshua Loth Liebman's "blue skies" book (the trade name for a consoling self-help handbook) sold over 250,000 copies, largely on its title. A string of novels (see box), most of them with gaudy jackets and tinny texts, sold extravagantly, some of them over 1,000,000 copies apiece...