Word: book
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pearl Buck), best-selling novelist, sounded off on bestsellers: "To read a book because others are reading it is no reason at all. For myself, I should like to see every best-seller list abolished, and the volume of sale of any book kept a secret, even in advertising...
Promptly from Mr. Willkie to the news services went an angry reply: Commonwealth & Southern had offered a year ago to pay up to $60 for Consumers stock, said he. Both SEC and the Michigan Public Utilities Commission had ruled that it could buy the stock at book value...
...Otis & Co. is really interested in buying common stocks of utility companies for investment purposes, they can purchase at book value . . . the stock of the Detroit Edison Co. . . . They can likewise buy the stock of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York ... at approximately 60% of book value...
Consisting of 218 books, 25 posters, 17 issues of a literary magazine called The Chap-Book, it includes most of the works published between 1893 and 1905 by the late great Chicago publishing house of Stone & Kimball (later Herbert S. Stone & Co.).* To a generation that looks to the East for intelligent publishing, the story of this output is provocative...
Hannibal Ingalls Kimball Jr., a shrewd, dynamic businessman, was the son of a Yankee-born Atlanta capitalist. In their junior year, they published a 5? guide to the Chicago World's Fair, written and illustrated by Stone. It netted $600. Before graduation they had published books by Hamlin Garland, Eugene Field, Joaquin Miller George Santayana. In 1894 they moved to Chicago. Their house organ was a little magazine called The Chap-Book dedicated to "all that is most modern and aggressive in the Young Man's literature." Within the next few years they had introduced...