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Word: compositors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normal times the Leader-News had seven employes in the "back shop," five in the editorial and business office. On Jan. 1 the news editor and an ad compositor go to the Navy, an apprentice printer to the Army. The business manager and an advertising salesman are leaving for better-paying jobs. That will leave five in the back shop, including two green high-school boys, a bookkeeper and a society writer out front. Ceaseless attempts to hire new hands have produced not one nibble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weeklies & The War | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...white inhabitants of Shanghai in check, they still did not have good control of the Chinese. Puppet President Wang Ching-wei's Central China Daily News serves as an organ of Japanese propaganda. In it last week-between the lines of a gambling-house advertisement-a Chinese compositor had set the words: "Down with the traitor Wang Ching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Vanishing Metropolis | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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