Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Sir Stafford's report: "1948 was a year of great and steady progress." Britain is now paying with exports for 90% of her imports. She had reduced her overall trade deficit from ?630 million in 1947 to ?120 million. At year's end, she actually had a small surplus on hand, though, the report warned, it was not certain that the surplus had "come to stay." Within these overall trade figures, however, was Britain's trade with the dollar countries and her chronic dollar shortage. This problem '-Britain's most urgent-had also been...
Last week Moscow's Literary Gazette scrutinized Pocket Books, Inc.'s 25? U.S. edition of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, declared it "a monstrous crime against world culture." To catch the newsstand trade, the American edition wore on the cover a colored photograph of Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (Anna)* and moony, mustached Cinemactor Kieron Moore (Vronsky), separated by a nose tip from a Hollywood embrace. To Communist eyes this appeared "as bright and shiny as a toilet soap advertisement." In cutting the bulky novel by approximately two-thirds, gritted the Literary Gazette, the "American barbarians" had reduced Tolstoy...
Tailor & Cutter, British trade magazine, picked the Marquess of Milford Haven as "the Sartorial Year's Best Man." Anthony Eden won the "Order of the Dead Needle" as "the year's big disappointment." Even the Canadian press had described Eden as "distinctly shabby," and he had made the shocking disclosure that he no longer had a tailor. But to British tailors the most painful sight of all was rumpled Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin: "We can think of no one else in a public position who seems to pay such little regard to his clothes...
...years, book publishers have grumbled among themselves about U.S. newspapers' bestseller lists; the book trade held that they should be made more accurate or they should be abolished. This week the Saturday Review of Literature shouted the same thing out loud with a three-page blast at the "respectable [but] hardly scientific" Sunday lists of the New York Times and Herald Tribune...
...blame as the papers. Some, it charged, reported slow-selling books as "bestsellers" to step up sales. Others were influenced by "literary snobbishness." S.R.L. suggested an Audit Bureau of Bestsellers, to function something like the press's Audit Bureau of Circulation. It was time "that the book trade cooperated in a certified, scientific, irrefutable system...