Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something had to be done, most Americans agreed. There was no consolation to be drawn from the fact that unions, in exercising their power, might also destroy themselves, as in the case of the recent 87-day strike of the Newspaper Guild against J. David Stern's Camden Courier and Post and Philadelphia Record. A disgusted Stem sold his papers; 580 strikers were left high...
...Philadelphia's two other press lords. The Guild had made identical demands (including $100 a week for experienced newsmen) on Walter Annenberg, head of the Inquirer. Annenberg, like Stern, had turned them down-but the Guild let Annenberg alone, and struck Stern's Record, and his Camden Courier and Post, across the Delaware River...
...seize the fund for their party treasury, paying the displaced peasants in depreciated Communist currency and using the profit to buy arms. But the Nanking Government was so anxious to keep the Yellow River project alive that it offered to send a $5 billion down payment by UNRRA courier...
...courier would have his hands full; in $2,000 Chinese bills, the payment would take up six cubic yards, equivalent in baggage bulk to two cords of kindling wood...
...both papers. At the Record, steaks, chops and plentiful desserts were served on linen-spread tables gleaming in candlelight. Each day masseurs came in to rub down Stern's high-priced, nonstop help. In Philadelphia the men managed to get home each night, but in Camden the Courier-Post crew slept in cots set up beside their desks, seldom saw their families. At week's end Saylor rasped: "There's nobody here getting tired. We're getting as much sleep as we always did. We're just giving up our spare time." Shrewd Dave Stern...