Word: paper
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...prices down but cut their meat portions, refused seconds on coffee and turned to à la carte menus. In Atlanta, a restaurant proprietor shook his head: "Every day," said he, "I stand in the lobby of the building where my place is and count the lunches going by in paper bags. There are more of those lunch toters every week...
...Newark News was not the only paper that was disturbed by Rex Morgan, M.D., although it was the only one that threw it out. From Canada the Hamilton, Ont. Spectator dashed off a query to the syndicate; so did the staid Providence, R.I. Bulletin...
...year 1950 had no old-fashioned runaway bestseller, and Publishers' Row was ready with explanations: television, public apathy, the Korean war, or just one of those off years. But the public was not as book-weary as it looked. It bought close to 200 million paper-backed reprints, paying $50 million for them. In a year when a new regular-priced novel could be a leading bestseller with less than 75,000 copies, many of the reprints were doing five times as well-and with books often considerably more worth reading. Among the popular books in the reprint market...
...most popular book, fiction or nonfiction, was a fat, slick novel about a young priest's spectacular rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Commonplace, often dull, Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal nevertheless found nearly 600,000 customers, of whom about three-fourths chose the paper-covered edition...
...Oakwood, Ohio, when the city tried to claim $7,220, found by five trash collectors in a city dump, on the grounds that all collected trash is city property, Judge Don Thomas awarded the money to its finders, because "U.S. currency is not in the category of waste paper or waste of any kind...