Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Camrose made up his mind to revive the Illustrated two days before war was declared, first copies reached the newsstands eight days after. Before the week was half gone, the original print order (500,000 copies) was exhausted...
...same fate had overtaken Sir Oswald Mosley's Action when the first issue after war's outbreak failed to appear. Actually Sir Oswald's proofs were held up by the censor until too late for publication. Last week's Action (cut from 20 pages to eight) was out on time, demanding: "What is the policy of the Government in the present War? At first we were told this was a war to save Poland. Now we are told that it's a war to destroy Hitlerism. In plain language...
Among the first signs of war in most European cities were lean newspapers. Stripped of their usual verbiage, they were cut down to eight or twelve or 16 pages, in Poland to one sheet. Object (see p. 19): to save newsprint. Many a U. S. publisher, watching his circulation figures soar as fat editions pushed each other off his presses, wondered if presently he too might not feel a paper shortage, followed by rising prices. In World War I newsprint went from $40 a ton to a 1920 peak...
...Cleveland) were abandoned. Reason: too much business. Cleveland's Monarch Machine Tool Co. sold seven of 14 machines it had planned to exhibit at the show. The company has orders enough to keep running 20 hours a day for four months. National Acme Co. in Cleveland, sold eight of its machines built for the show, was running 24 hours a day (60% of its backlog is for export). A manufacturer of presses sold 32 of them (at $400 to $3,000 apiece) between 8 o'clock one morning and 3 o'clock that afternoon. Lathes...
...Eight hundred and eighty-seven upperclassmen and four freshmen registered Saturday morning in Memorial Hall, swelling the total registration figure to 1,890, and raising the number of first year...