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Merrimount Press, WA - 50 Years of Reporting Pacific Northwest Business [Published Date: 1999]. Soft cover, 185 pp. No other printings listed.
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In very good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. [From back cover] FOUNDED IN 1949, Marple's Business Newsletter chronicled virtually from the beginning the rapid post-World War II growth and diversification of the Pacific Northwest economy, nurse-log not only to Boeing, Weyerhaeuser and Boise Cascade but also Tektronix, Nordstrom, Nike, Microsoft and Amazon.com. Elliot Marple, with key help from (among others) a gruff former Wall Street Journal reporter, was out pounding the pavement for business stories back when the region's newspapers ignored the subject. In this book, occasioned by the newsletter's 50th anniversary, you'll find Marple's fascinating account of the newsletter's start as another outlet for his wide-ranging reporting for Business Week magazine and other publications. Along the way, Marple outlines the Pacific Northwest's emergence from its status as a rough-hewn economic backwater to its standing today, a region at the forefront of changes sweeping the U.S. and world economies at the dawn of the Digital Millennium.Armed with little more than gritty determination to sign his own paycheck and a spare and direct writing style, Elliot Marple, fresh from firing by a Detroit ad agency, set up a one-man news bureau in Seattle in 1947 servicing Business Week magazine and small trade newspapers for as little as a penny a word. He founded Marple's Business Roundup (later Marple's Business Newsletter) in 1949 as another platform for his wide-ranging shoe-leather reporting on business and industry throughout the Pacific Northwest. Originally a newspaperman and later a Washington, D.C., press chief for the war-time price-control agency, Marple developed yet another career after retirement from the newsletter: author of family and business histories.