Word: globe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complications of pneumonia. "Is it all over?" a member of the family asked. One of the doctors nodded. Janet Dulles moved quietly to the head of the bed and looked down at her husband's face. Nobody said a word. And in all the lands of the globe where liberty and independence are prized, the free and the thoughtful mourned the tough old warrior who had fought their fight with rare purpose, skill and dedication...
...Georgia Group, whose ad salesmen sell space at a reduced group rate. In a single plant in Clarksville, Tenn., Publisher James Charlet prints nine papers. In a recent, dramatic example, New York's chain-publishing S. I. Newhouse sold plant and property of his strikebound St. Louis Globe-Democrat to the thriving St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which will print the Globe on contract...
...Newhouse, he admits that the Globe-Democrat has lost about $2,000,000 in advertising revenues since the strike began, estimates that it may cost him as much as $1,000,000 more to get the paper back to its prestrike position. Newhouse is now transferring Globe executives temporarily to other jobs within his chain, has managed to cut his out-of-pocket strike costs to some $20,000 a month. At that rate, with a dozen other moneymaking papers in his string, Newhouse can afford to hold out indefinitely. With the guild demanding to know in advance of Newhouse...
...Public Interest. So far, the only apparent beneficiary of the strike at the morning Globe has been the bigger, richer afternoon Post-Dispatch. Since the strike began, the Post-Dispatch has jumped 60,000 in daily circulation...
...last week the Post-Dispatch indicated that it would gladly give up the gains to get back the Globe-Democrat. Said the public-service-minded Post-Dispatch in an unusual editorial: "There is a public interest in the publication of two separate, independent newspapers in this community. We believe the public interest calls for an early settlement. In all too many American cities, newspaper competition has disappeared. The Post-Dispatch does not want to see that happen here...