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Word: hellbox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Typographical Union has been getting into contracts since 1871. In its broadest application, bogus compels a newspaper to employ workers to reset the advertisements that have been received and used in mat or plate form. The reset ad is worthless, often consigned at once to the composing-room hellbox for remelting. On the Washington Post and Times Herald, I.T.U. men last week were resetting ads that actually ran in 1957. The New York Times estimated that it dead-horsed 5,750,000 lines of display advertising last year alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bogus Man | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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