Word: backshop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poster typography, told his editors to shorten the wordy leads on news stories, stop "jumping" stories from Page One. He quickly won the women. First he abolished the old rule against women smoking in the city room. Then he ordered women's lounges installed at once. He gave backshop employes a $3-a-week raise; the rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, caught flatfooted, had to follow suit. Last week Hoyt sent a legman legging it on a 13-state assignment to retrieve its famed regional coverage...
...Louis, whose big three daily newspapers are closed by a strike, got itself a new paper last week. Its publishers (the Newspaper Guildsmen and three backshop unions of the strike-bound Post-Dispatch, the Star-Times and Globe-Democrat) hoped it would not live long. So did St. Louis readers, who found the skimpy four pages of its first issue an inadequate substitute. To start their St. Louis Daily News, Guildsmen wangled a first allotment of 16¼ tons of newsprint from WPB (which will allow any new daily paper that much), persuaded a south St. Louis neighborhood publisher...