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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...
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...
...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...