Word: inks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazines. It had the largest women's magazine (Confidences: circ. approximately 1,000,000), three children's magazines, including a Mickey Mouse weekly with a circulation of over 400,000; Prèsse-Publicité, sort of a French combination of Editor & Publisher and Printer's Ink. Reason for these successes, says Winkler, was his adoption of U.S. editorial and advertising techniques rather than the venal methods of the kept French press...
Their sinister game, said G-Man Hoover, was snitching important national defense secrets and transmitting them to a "foreign power." Short-wave radio messages, courier service via Clipper planes, code messages in secret ink, intricate financing of conspiracies-they used them all. Their clearing house: the Little Casino...
...Selective Service caught them-not to avoid serving in the Army, but to sandwich in a brief honeymoon before they went off alone to camp. On the day after graduation day at West Point, chaplains were busy from 9:30 a.m. until dusk, married 26 second lieutenants with the ink barely dry on their commissions...
...years ago Dave Smart, onetime stenographer and merchandising counsel, had virtually no publishing experience except as part owner with William Hobart Weintraub of a little clothing-trade journal modeled after Printers' Ink. But in 1931 they named it Apparel Arts and revamped it in a slick imitation of the new magazine FORTUNE. Their success was striking-so striking that within six years Publisher Smart, on the crest of the wave, was asking, "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before? It's a cinch...
...last week, thanks to their business boom and to sale or charter of old vessels at scarcity prices, they were in black ink for fair. American Export (which increased its tonnage of freight carried from 522,482 in 1938 to 933,952 last year, its miles traveled from 1,042,590 to 1,392,391), boosted its net income for the nine months ended last September to $5,895,000 from $216,631 in the 1939 period. Other typical 1940 earnings reports: Moore-McCormack, $5,274,911 against $354,416 in 1939; American-Hawaiian, a $3,431,169 profit against...