Word: expresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then a special air-cargo rate that would make this operation economically possible was approved by the U.S. Government and, in May of 1941, our Air Express edition (now called Latin American) began. It was printed on fast offset presses in Jersey City, N.J. and carried by Pan American Airways planes to 20 countries in South and Central America, thereby cutting delivery time by three weeks. We also worked out a technique of photographing TIME'S editorial copy on film, which could be rushed by air to Latin American printing plants...
After a leisurely trip on a frigate and a banana boat, he turned up in London. "Poor little Creech Jones," the Daily Express quoted him as saying, "he's had a bad time . . . Acted like a fool. I will tell him a thing or two when...
...long-awaited word that it had increased the newsprint ration, and Fleet Street went forth to battle for circulation. Last week, as the gains and casualties were totted up after a month of heavy fighting, the London Daily Mirror claimed victory. By passing Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, the tabloid Mirror had become the world's biggest daily. In January its circulation had jumped 487,000, to 4,187,403. Commented the sound, small (circ. 42,000) weekly London Economist: "The success of the Daily Mirror is a sorry reflection upon a democracy, sometimes called educated, which prefers...
With this flamboyant formula, plus a dash of socialism, roly-poly little Editor Harry Guy ("Mister Bart") Bartholomew of the Mirror had outdistanced the equally flamboyant Express. For years the world's biggest daily, the Express had added Dick Tracy and a letters column. But it had picked up only 130,000 readers, dropping to second place, with a January average...
...churches have been arrested and imprisoned on an ever-increasing scale . . . We see ... a deliberate attempt to undermine the strength of churches by forcing them either to withdraw completely from public life or to become tools of secular policy . . . We reaffirm . . . that every person has the right to express his religious beliefs...