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Word: journalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest U.S. women's magazine has; a slogan that hangs over advertisers' heads, like a poised rolling pin: Never underestimate the power of a woman. This week., to prove that admen don't, the October Ladies' Home Journal carried a staggering; $2,677,260 worth of ads on its 278 pages., more than any magazine had ever crammed, into a single issue. It was no one-shot freak; the Journal was breaking its own record, and next month will do even better, having just raised its ad rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies' Choice | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

From cover to hemline, the stylish-stout Journal has become something that Editor Edward Bok, who died in 1930, would barely recognize as his baby. Last year, it did more business than the next two women's magazines, Good Housekeeping and McCall's, combined. At a quarter a copy, circulation is a booming 4,520,982, three-quarters of a million over Crowell-Collier's second-place Woman's Home Companion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies' Choice | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...other strikes, newspapers have shut down, or resorted to Vari-Type. The Journal of Commerce, oldest (121 years) U.S. business paper and the only New York daily still living on historic Park Row (in the old Pulitzer Building), did neither. Along with 24 other editorial and ad staffers, curly-haired Editor & Publisher Bernard J. Ridder, 35, and his 30-year-old brother Eric, general manager, sat down at the linotype machines and set the type themselves. (They had once been linotype operators as part of their journalistic training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble on Park Row | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...week's end the Journal was setting type on standard linotypes, others fitted with typewriter keyboards, teletypesetters manned by "half a dozen pretty girls," and (for the lengthy stock and commodity tables) photo-engraved typewriting. The Ridders and their amateur printers were tired and grimy, but their now typographically clean paper was almost meeting its deadlines. And the I.T.U. had another 120-point warning that the revolution in printing had come to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble on Park Row | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...when Jiggs said: "The intermissions are the only good things about this show." "Obviously," said Goldsmith, "that meant that Mission Oil was the only good buy." He so advised his customers, and two days later Mission Oil hit a new high. (Goldsmith also discovered tips in the Wall Street Journal's "Pepper and Salt" joke column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: The Forecaster | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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