Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days last September, German bombers were expected over London's fabled Fleet Street at almost any moment. Gas masks took their place among the teacups and typewriters in the "big rooms" (city rooms in the U. S.) of England's enormous daily newspapers, and air-raid drills were held between deadlines...
Shiniest target in Fleet Street or anywhere else in London is the spectacular "Black Glass House" of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Editorially, however, the Express was far from worried, shouting nearly every day across the top of its front page: THE DAILY EXPRESS DECLARES THAT BRITAIN WILL NOT BE INVOLVED IN A EUROPEAN WAR THIS YEAR, OR NEXT YEAR EITHER. Readers were not told that dark paint had been daubed over the gleaming black glass walls inside the courtyard of the Express building, that its principal editors had been fitted with asbestos coveralls, that it had spent...
...Ministry of Information, he bought controlling interest in the doddering Daily Express for $85,500. The same afternoon he had to draw $250,000 more from the bank to pay pressing liabilities. Lord Northcliffe, then at the height of his spectacular career, advised him to stay out of Fleet Street, warned: "You'll lose everything you have." This dare Beaverbrook took...
...every subscriber, and the Express, with 450,000 readers, countered with ?2,000. In a few months both were offering ?10,000. The war cost the Express $600,000 a year and the Mail, with its larger circulation, nearly twice as much.* Ten years later another premium war swept Fleet Street and bled $5,000,000 from the Express and its three big rivals- the Daily Mail (1,530,000), Daily Herald (2,000,000) and News Chronicle (1,330,000). The Laborite Daily Herald started it by offering a complete set of Dickens for a few shillings. Beaverbrook...
...comparatively new and far more sedate Telegraph building is only a few doors from the Express. Fleet Street wags have compared them to a stockbroker taking his mistress to dinner...