Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since country weeklies are distinctive for their local flavor, great chains and publishing titans in this field are rare. However, their widening interests have meant greater dependence on centralized services. For editorial matter outside of local topics, some of them use the Western Newspaper Union, world's largest and oldest publishing syndicate. With 34 branch plants in principal U. S. cities, W. N. U. sells type, printing machinery, paper and 400 features to 10,732 daily and weekly newspapers. For national advertising, some 5,000 country papers are represented by the American Press Association, which is no association...
...Tribune's Sunday department, assistant Sunday editor, Sunday editor, women's editor of Liberty when it was owned by the McCormick-Patterson interests. She and Publisher Patterson are old, old friends. Three of her four broth ers fought through the World War in the 149th Field Artillery of the 42nd (Rain bow) Division, in which her husband was a captain. By his first wife, Mrs. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, who divorced him five weeks ago, Bridegroom Patterson has four children: Elinor, Alicia, Josephine, James...
...Anderson's analysis of the photograph (see cut) is as follows: the particle, weighing 240 electron units, enters the chamber near the upper left-hand corner of the picture, making a thin, sketchy white track which is slightly curved owing to a strong magnetic field maintained across the chamber. Its energy is 10,000,000 electron-volts. It passes through a copper cylinder (left centre) and emerges below, much weaker and making a broader line. Its energy is now only 210,000 volts and so its path is more sharply bent by the magnetic field. After traveling about...
With 1,500 gallons of gas in the tanks, America's most purposeful playboy, Howard Hughes, at the controls, and a wad of gum on her tail for luck, a silver Lockheed monoplane roared up off Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, one hot evening this week. The New York World's Fair 1939 was bound for Paris with a crew of four-Navigator Harry P. M. Connor, veteran of Captain Erroll Boyd's Montreal-London hop in 1930; Navigator Lieut...
Averaging 218 miles an hour Pilot Hughes flew the Lindbergh route as it never had been flown before. When Manhattan went to bed he was veering off Newfoundland. When it rose for breakfast he was over Ireland. Before lunch the radio reported him in at Le Bourget Field, 3,641 miles away in Paris, 16 hours, 35 minutes after his takeoff, more than twice as fast as Lindbergh's time, 33 hours, 30 minutes...