Business & Finance: Pamphlet Boom

Under the high-powered imprint of Simon & Schuster three yellow-covered pamphlets have appeared in U. S. bookshops in the past two years amid loud fanfare. First was Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas' The Coming American Boom, a breezy contribution to U. S. economics which sold 27,000 copies at $1.50 each. Next was Inflation Ahead by Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton, which sold 71,000 copies, at $1. The third Simon & Schuster pamphlet was Your Income Tax, a slapdash $1 handbook offered agitated taxpayers about a month before the last Federal income tax deadline....

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