Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disgruntled Russians curled up with a very good book-the U.S. best-seller Atomic Energy for Military Purposes by the "American Smyth" (Dr. Henry DeWolf Smyth, consultant for the Manhattan project). Thirty thousand copies were available to Russians who wanted to learn atomic "secrets" the easy...
...Seller's Market. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Sidney Raskin, after charging her husband $5 each for kisses, sued for divorce...
...facing death." To writer Remarque the really effective anti-war book would be a picture-book. Nevertheless he was still writing, was following up a new novel (see BOOKS) with yet another, about German crimes and German mistakes. "The human mind forgets too quickly," explained between-the-wars best-seller Remarque. "The simple fact that a man has survived the war . . . makes him, after a short time, remember war as a grand adventure...
Labor still had a seller's market. The first wave of unemployment after V-J day turned out to be a mere ripple. Even now there were only 2,000,000 unemployed according to estimates of the Committee for Economic Development. Official figures might be higher, but the number of real unemployment was certainly not yet large...
...present seller's market Joe Frazer figures that the big trick is to produce cars. They will probably sell themselves, even though untested, until the market returns to something like normal. Therefore he was negotiating last week for more production facilities, hoped to lease a West Coast plane plant from RFC. And he confidently went ahead with plans to have the first showing of the hand-built models of the Frazer and Kaiser in Manhattan...