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rated as a million dollars in Ihm ua& ^adstreet^ 

 while a lot of other businesses would run into 

 axaf nllXions. If thi|r sold #500^000 a year they 

 would be a big publisher. But of eois^set the 

 profits were bigger in pez*oentage because labor 

 was eheap* As X remember « our juveniles cost 

 around twelve cents to aanufaeture. 



C^ilbi That's a regul8i»« heavily bo\md,*« 



Ooggins: That would sell for $1«2^ at list* Soae of the 

 publishers would send their printing up into 

 Iiancaster County, where the Hennonites lived, 

 beoause they worked very cheap* I think soxae 

 magazines are still printed there today. I think 

 Country Life was printed up there for a long time. 



ailbs Curtis Publishing? 



Cogginss YeSf they gave it up later, or sold it to somebody. 



dilbs May X ask what your salary was as children's 

 editort 



Cogginss Well, not very iii9>ressive. When I became Editor 

 it was doubled, but it hbybv got over #60» X was^ 

 however, to be better paid when the imgasine got 

 on its feet. 



ailb: A month? 



Cogginss Yes. 



