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Publishing peace came to Chattanooga, Tenn. last week. The peace brought new and greater Lebensraum for 40-year-old Groceryman Roy McDonald, who nine years ago started the Free Press to advertise his own grocery chain (60 stores) and succeeded so well that six years later he had driven to the wall George Fort Milton's once-powerful News...
...deal which largely ends economic competition between Chattanooga's two remaining papers and puts them in a position to make wartime operating economies, Groceryman McDonald became president of a new company which will pool circulation, advertising and mechanical staffs of the News-Free Press (evening) and the Chattanooga Times (morning). A bigger compliment to Groceryman McDonald was the agreement by the Chattanooga Times (the late great Adolph Ochs's steppingstone to the New York Times and still controlled by the Ochs family) to discontinue its evening edition. Started two years ago to give the fast-growing News-Free...
Free Press. Grocer McDonald, son of a Knoxville groceryman, built up a chain of 60 stores in Chattanooga. He bought a dairy to supply his stores with milk, a bakery to bake his bread, a laundry, a tire and gasoline company. He saw no use in paying good money to advertise in the papers...
...Groceryman Kunin jokingly proposed a merger: "With your brand names and reputation and my business methods, we can go places." Groceryman Dennehy laughed it off. But next time the two met on the train they joked some more about a merger...
Publisher-Groceryman McDonald blamed the Commission's action on his old foe-shrewd, ponderous, Publisher-Editor George Fort Milton of the rival News, who is an old and valued friend of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. "Publisher Milton," he snapped, "has long swaggered over the country as the lord of the Tennessee Valley. . . . The Free Press will continue to compete with his ... newspaper with every honest means...