Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME collects all available information on all subjects of importance and general interest. The essence of all this information is reduced to approximately 100 short articles. . . . Each . . . will be found in its logical place in the magazine, according to a fixed method of arrangement which constitutes a complete organization of the news...
This "fixed method of arrangement" turned out to be 22 departments (16 of them are still in TIME), from National Affairs to Books, in a slim 28-page volume (at present TIME has 23 departments and 104 pages). But it was the beginning of the functional journalism of information. Foreign news went where it belonged, under Foreign News; the news of Art, Religion, Medicine, etc. was similarly departmentalized. And departments which needed it were further organized internally with permanent subheads like National Affairs, The Presidency, The Congress, The Administration...
With all the comings & goings of other departments to meet changing times, TIME's basic departments have remained to stand the test of 23 years of reading as a distinctive, original, logical method of presenting the week's news. We think it is the best news design yet produced to implement our original, expressed desire: to make the news make sense...
...residue from milling which farmers feed their livestock and poultry. With feed already short, chances were that farmers would hang on to their wheat for feed. They had another reason. They hoped to have ceilings taken off farm products. Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson tried another method, not so painless, to get grain. He boosted the ceiling prices on wheat, now $1.80½ a bushel at Chicago, 3?. Up also went corn, 3? oats, 2? and barley...
...method of transmitting high-voltage D.C. current some 600 miles from its generating source, about twice the distance now possible...