Word: blight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Billboard Blight...
TIME, Oct. 29, "Billboards are a blight upon the Nation...
Billboards are a blight upon the Nation. Such a statement, often made, drives every outdoor advertising man into a sputtering rage. His trade association has rigid rules against placing billboards where they may be resented by "fair-minded" citizens-in purely residential districts, around parks or in front of "natural scenic beauty spots." Ethical outdoor advertising men are not supposed to use "snipes" (small roadside signs), "daubs" (painted on rocks or fences) or "tackers" (tacked on trees). Furthermore, all good outdoor advertising men deplore the word billboard. They all refer to their medium as "poster panels" or "painted bulletins...
...worked for phonograph companies since his high school days, when he ran errands during summer vacations. Smart Jack Kapp worked eight years for Columbia, eight years for Brunswick. He discovered many a new talent, promoted many a new selling scheme only to see the phonograph industry languish under the blight of radio...
...World Economic Conference last year the International Wheat Conference salvaged and signed an export quota agreement which acts of the Almighty have greatly assisted its signatories to keep (TIME, Sept. 11). Of the Big Four signatories?U.S., Argentina, Canada and Australia?only Argentina has wholly escaped the searing blight of drought, and last week only Argentina had broken her agreement, exporting 34,000,000 more bushels of wheat than the 110,000,000 she accepted as her limit. Even so drought has struck savagely enough to keep the Big Four from exceeding their combined quota of 462,000,000 bushels...