Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover) Long, long ago, when ancient Greece's local wars were called off so that Greek could meet Greek in the Olympic games, athletes were faddish about food. At one stage, the training-table diet for athletes was fresh cheese at all meals - and nothing else except water. Then things swung the other way: Milo of Crotona, the greatest wrestler of ancient times, ate an entire ox at a single sitting...
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Like the newsmen who covered both conventions, photographers found the Democratic show duller. There were not as many candidates, headquarters or angles to cover-and not as many chances for exclusives...
...announced that steel prices would have to go up also. Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Eugene Grace and most of the industry followed Big Steel's lead on wages, and began figuring price increases, too. In addition to the wage increase, the new prices would also have to cover higher coal prices (which added up to $1.25 a ton to the cost of finished steel) and a freight rate increase which hit in May, just before the industry cut prices (TIME, May 10). The weekly Iron Age estimated that steel would go up as much...