Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beshoar's business, of course, is to cover the news of national interest that originates in the Rocky Mountain states.* During and since the war an increasing volume of news has come from there. Denver itself, the focus of transcontinental railroads, highways and airlines, is the largest, fastest-growing business center between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. As such, it is the natural center of TIME Inc.'s news gathering forces in the area...
When the town began to resound with rumors that somebody was trying to cover up the crime, the sheriff secretly jailed a fellow who had been drinking with Cricket on the night of her disappearance. The man was one of his own friends, beefy, crop-haired Jerry Nuzum, a professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers. For three days no word of the arrest leaked...
...United Fruit Co., whose banana plantings cover a third of the valley, had had better luck with its rainmaking methods. The company's Texas-bred pilot, stocky Joe M. Silverthorne, did the trick by dropping Dry Ice pellets into passing clouds...
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...Where TIME itself has been banned since the cover story on Eva Perón in July...