Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shopkeepers were closing their doors, unable to sell what luxury goods they had left (fine German cameras, handsome Swiss watches), unwilling to sell for drachmas what little food they had. A fish seller would refuse several billion drachmas, but jump at the offer of some fresh olives in exchange for a fish. Three cigarets would buy more than cash in a market where bread was priced at 11 billions a pound, eggs at 15 billions apiece...
Captain Burgess Meredith was placed on inactive duty by the U.S. Army, assumed the role of Columnist Ernie Pyle in a Hollywood version of Pyle's best seller, Here Is Your...
With less than two weeks left to bone up for the election, U.S. citizens were not exactly rushing to buy books about the candidates. Stanley Walker's new campaign biography, Dewey; an American of This Century (Whittlesey House; $2.50), was no more a best seller than the year's two Roosevelt books: Compton Mackenzie's Mr. Roosevelt, Noel F. Busch's What Manner...
Problems, not personalities, were on the reading public's mind. On most nonfiction best-seller lists were Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision, Charles & Mary Beard's A Basic History of the United States, Edgar Snow's People on Our Side, Walter Lippmann's U.S. War Aims, Joseph C. Grew's Ten Years in Japan...
With such a great demand, nearly every book that is published could become a runaway best seller. Therefore the size of each edition is decided beforehand by the state publishing houses, more or less arbitrarily. The basis for decision is not how many books will sell, but how important and useful they...