Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...interesting feature of the book market in Harvard Square is the apparent lack of activity in the dollar new fiction field. Although sales of cheap reprint editions continue to run high, the demand for novels is confined almost entirely to those which are in the two dollar and two-fifty class. In other words the announcement made last spring by certain publishers cutting their fiction, prices in half has had little effect on Cambridge buyers...
...French cellars lies a surplus of more than 100,000,000 gallons of "green juice," for this year's crop was uncomfortably bumper. "Hitherto we have never attempted to market the 'green' product," said a spokesman for the French vintners last week, "but that was only because the buyers have always preferred that it be made into wine in France. If the Americans prefer, all our classic vintages can be shipped green, and, as they say, 'developed' in their homes...
...also remember how that firm ended in a flurry of indictments. Promoter Andrews came out of that crash unscathed. He went to Manhattan, prospered in stocks and buildings; went to Los Angeles, prospered in stocks, hotels, penny slot-machines. So greatly did he prosper that he could play the market in company with that once great bull William Crapo Durant. He became and still is a director of Hupp Motor Car Corp. and of Budd Wheel...
Domesticity ensues, girl twins are born. Romeo reads the newspaper and talks of his great plans; no money comes in. But the faithful partner always arrives in the nick of time, bringing helpful packages. While Romeo scans the market reports and his wife washes the dishes, he amuses the twins by acrobatic stunts. Finally Romeo is fed up with the sight of his face and leaves the house in a rage. He returns a little later, a little cooler, only to find his wife practicing well-remembered tricks with her old partner. At that there is an explosion. When...
...Harvard band has to pay for its own dress and consequently is very definitely limited; but even if some trumpet-conscious Maecenas gave from what he had left after the Stock Market crash to buy gilded epaulettes and Cossack helmets for the bandplayers, it would be unfortunate if the musicians succumbed to the glamor and the tinsel...