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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying either to file slips or withdraw books. These present difficulties could be eliminated by breaking down the wall between the present Bibliographical Reference Room and the Delivery Working Room, making one room of the two. The entire delivery desk could then be moved back and lengthened to twice its present size...
Hamlet. Maurice Evans in an uncut version: twice as long as the usual Hamlet, twice as good (TIME...
...stories high and a glistening jet-black, the new building stands out in Manchester's dingy Great Ancoats Street like a jackdaw in a crowd of sparrows, is admittedly about twice as large as necessary. Manchester Expressmen, celebrating quietly last week over glasses of "bitter" in the nextdoor Crown and Kettle, were doubtful about the reason for this, but in London Lord Beaverbrook explained. Said he: "It exemplifies my type...
...million readers, offered ?1,000 free accident insurance to every subscriber, and the Express, with 450,000 readers, countered with ?2,000. In a few months both were offering ?10,000. The war cost the Express $600,000 a year and the Mail, with its larger circulation, nearly twice as much.* Ten years later another premium war swept Fleet Street and bled $5,000,000 from the Express and its three big rivals- the Daily Mail (1,530,000), Daily Herald (2,000,000) and News Chronicle (1,330,000). The Laborite Daily Herald started it by offering a complete...
Other new models with trick names began appearing twice a year, timed to hit the peak seasons of the watch business-De cember and June (graduation time...