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pressured Ryan to loosen encyclopedia sales practices, lower customer credit standards, and cut Couch’s editorial budget. Ryan resisted, and despite generating record profits, was fired in April 1959. With his friend and ally gone, Couch’s days at P. F. Collier were numbered. Couch rebuffed a proposal by
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where he rose to be the director of the press and therefore a member of the university faculty. His brother, John Couch was also a member of the
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Department of Commerce-Bureau of the Census (14 June 1920).
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