Word: backshop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missouri still has plenty of applicants. Some 300 students are majoring in such subjects as news-editorial, radiotelevision, and weekly and small-daily publishing. Since most of its graduates go to work for small dailies or weeklies-fully 30% stay in the state-the school offers noncredit courses in backshop work. Editors have long since been shown by Missouri; the graduating class annually has four times as many job offers as members...
...Future. Staunch Republican Snedden did not always have his magnificent obsession. Growing up in the Northwest, he learned the backshop trades of the news business, mastered the Linotype when he was 14, developed into a skilled doctor of slumping papers, and, incidentally, made a pile in real estate. When he went up to Fairbanks in 1950 to diagnose what ailed the sick News-Miner of Austin ("Cap") Lathrop, Snedden was convinced that Alaska should not seek statehood...