Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rough and ready U.S. journalism boiled with such competition that Bostonians could take their daily pick of twelve daily English-language papers, Chicagoans of ten, New Yorkers of 20. By 1916, the alltime peak year, no less than 2,461 dailies were in business. By last week, when the American Newspaper Publishers Association met for its annual convention in New York, the total number of U.S. dailies had dropped to about 1,750. And in only 76 U.S. communities were there dailies in competition...
Smaller Slice. Successive waves of subscription and advertising increases have not only failed to meet skyrocketing costs, but in some cases have pushed advertisers and readers both into rebellion. New York City's three afternoon papers-World-Telegram and Sun, Post and Journal-American-have yet to recover the circulation they lost two years ago by raising the copy price from 5? to a dime. The Chicago Tribune now offers bargain advertising "zone rates" to hold fringe accounts, such as the corner grocer, who neither wants nor will pay for a citywide broadside. In Pasco, Wash., Sears, Roebuck began...
...Answer: yes. Reason: "Too long has Ike let himself be known as a leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative American Secretary of State." Said the Daily Express: LEADERSHIP LIES LIKE A DISCARDED SCEPTER IN AMERICA TODAY...
...worldwide Anglican Communion has a new top prelate in a new top job. To streamline its scattered activities in a jet-shrinking world, the Archbishop of Canterbury last week announced that he had picked an American: the Right Rev. Stephen Fielding Bayne Jr., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Olympia, Wash...
...questions used in screening the fledgling spacemen. Were those questions slanted to put a Catholic ... in a poor light? 4) Inevitably some aspiring politico will stir our bile to a boil by observing that a space team without a Catholic is like an All-American team without a Notre Dame player: serves us right if the Commies beat us to the moon...