Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Russia took a hand. In Tiflis (Stalin's old home town), a Free Yugo slavia radio station was set up. From it the news about Tito's Partisans was broad cast to the world. But Tiflis was three weeks by courier from Yugoslavia. News from Tito was always late...
...labor newspapers surveyed by the Federated Press, 117 were for Roosevelt, 19 were neutral; only one, the independent Central Labor Journal of Salina, Kans., was actively for Dewey. But the Pittsburgh Courier, largest U.S. Negro newspaper, came out for Dewey. Of the Negro press's two other "big three," the Baltimore Afro-American appeared to be leaning toward Dewey, while the Chicago Defender was still ardently pro-Roosevelt...
Snorted the Trenton (Ontario) Courier-Advocate: ". . . The Prices Board must have sent out one of those Government men who tell the farmers how to run their farms. . . . When instructed to come up to bossy at the stern end, he became confused, and all he could see was a pair of oversized eyes and a set of horns. 'By golly,' he said, 'this must be the stern end, for what could look sterner...
...Kendall Foss, contributing editor on Time Magazine. The eight daily newsmen are David E. Botter, Jr., political reporter on the Dallas News, Robert Bordner, reporter on the Cleveland Press, William H. Clark, feature writer of the Boston Sunday Globe, Edward W. Edstrom, assistant Sunday editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., city editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Ben Holstrom of the Minneapolis Star Journal and Tribune, Nathan W. Robertson, Washington correspondent of PM, and Charles A. Wagner, Sunday editor of the New York Mirror...
...first book about the invasion of Normandy, from D-day to the fall of Cherbourg, represents a remarkable publishing feat. Largely written in France, it was assembled and refurbished during a fortnight in London, dispatched to the publishers piecemeal. The last chapters reached the U.S. by courier less than three weeks before publication...