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...manpower to concentrate on their own state and local news. Many papers that buy TTS from the wire services also now use their own TTS machine to set local copy. Some even hire typists to operate the typewriter-keyboard punching machines at half the salary Linotype or Intertype compositors get, use one compositor to supervise as many as five tape-fed typesetting machines. The Miami Herald uses its own TTS circuits to cover local stories, e.g., the Herald punches tape in the press box at the Orange Bowl Stadium, feeds it directly into typesetting machines at the plant...
...radical, but by 1910 he was already demanding that Australia should have its own army & navy, and making speeches about the menace of Japan. That year, the Labor Party formed its first majority government, a cabinet consisting of two miners, a wharf lumper, a building worker, a hatter, a compositor, an engine driver and, of course, Billy Hughes. The cabinet split over World War I, and Hughes formed a national coalition government, pledged to aid Britain "to the last man and the last shilling...
...Public Health Service Hospital at Carville, La., the blind editor-patient okayed the last story as it was read to him. Compositor-patients put the paper to bed. Printer-patients ran off 8,000 copies. Then the whole press run was baked, to sterilize it. Last week the tenth anniversary edition of the Star went out to subscribers in 48 states and 30 foreign countries. The Star's single-minded editorial objective: to knock down misconceptions about Hansen's disease, as the 400 Carville patients call their illness-in popular parlance, leprosy...
...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...
...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...