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...copies a year. Biggest sellers: Grosset and Dunlap and Garden City (about 3,000,000 each). Another 10,000,000 is added by the nonprofit-making National Home Library's "Jacket Library" (15? & 25?), Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books (5?), Whitman Publishing Co.'s 10? Woolworth items such as Snow White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap Books | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Visitors to the New York World's Fair:* Countess Barbara Mutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, Son Lance, Cousin Woolworth Donahue, who were soon scared away by gawking crowds; Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumanslcy; Jang Krishnan, one of four Borneo brothers who have six-inch tails; Herbert Hoover (said he: "There is no very explosive news about visiting an exposition."); John Pierpont Morgan, for the second time; Radioactor Orson Welles read the $1,000 World's Fair prize poem by 23-year-old Smith Graduate Pearl Levison. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...philanthropic trust, the George & Frances Ball Foundation, then went hunting for buyers. He found them two years ago in a trio so unknown that no one laughed when they referred to themselves as "babes in the woods." The three: Brokers Robert R. Young and Frank B. Kolbe and a Woolworth company heir, Allan P. Kirby. Mr. Ball sold them 1,933,810 shares (43%) of the common stock in Alleghany Corp., the holding company just below Midamerica. This stock had cost Mr. Ball less than $270,000. He sold it for $4,000,000 cash, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Four Short Years | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...whom it is now relatively inaccessible. The completed reports are sent to a selected list of 1,000 big brokers, bankers, statisticians, anyone else who writes in. First two were on meat packers and steel. Last week's dealt with chain variety stores. Sample fact: F. W. Woolworth Co.'s net worth per dollar of total debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Curtain | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Miscellaneous Continental Baking 4,150,683 4,493,803 Liggett & Myers Tobacco 21,375,560 20,560,884 United Fruit 11,817,128 10,272,747 F. W. Woolworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Evidence and Opinion | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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