Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kentucky, and a confirmed belief that nothing quite equalled the satisfaction of riding and caring for your own motorcycle. About a year ago he turned up at TIME with his machine, a recommendation from the Associated Press, and a conviction that it was time we hired a motorcycle courier. Our editors, recalling the days when copy boys disappeared for hours on their way to trains and planes with editorial copy and pictures, were skeptical. Dailey talked himself into a job, however, and the editors have been thankful ever since...
...secretarial staff tried to cut down the presidential load by sifting and digesting the documents flown in daily by courier plane from Washington. But the burdens of the presidency could be lightened only partially. Harry Truman, who rises at 5:30, was sometimes at his desk until midnight...
...Commission failed to name names, except in obvious or innocuous cases of the misuse of freedom. He would note many a contradiction (e.g., in its preoccupation with the evils of monopoly, the Commission overlooked such cities as Boston, where eight competing papers give poorer fare than Louisville, whose Courier-Journal and Times are a monopoly...
Last week in Camden, whose strikebound Courier and Post await a buyer, the Guild started a daily of its own. The 3? Camden Free Press, printed 30 miles away in Wilmington, started out with a 30,000 press run, plenty of ads, a non-salaried staff, a Guild shop...
Gunning, who does business as Readable News Reports, has helped 30 U.S. dailies stop talking over their readers' heads. He urges them to try for the spoken-language level, where radio has operated for years. Among his clients: the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Star, United Press. His prize customer: the Wall Street Journal, which he says puts out "the most readable front page in the country" by shunning the technical jargon of the Street...