Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which, before war's end, many a newspaper may try. The method is also calculated to cut costs-but both of them claim that cost-cutting is not their object. Last week the New York Post, oldest in Manhattan (founded 1801), turned tabloid. And Denver's Rocky Mountain News announced that it would make the same change this week...
...Rocky Mountain News, which in its wild and woolly youth was sometimes printed on wrapping paper, is the second* Scripps-Howard sheet to adopt a small format. Business Manager Howard William Hailey explains that he had an itch to get hold of the national Sunday supplement Parade, which is syndicated by Marshall Field III. The savings the News will make (mostly by dropping its old Sunday magazine and reducing the size of its comic section) will more than pay for Parade...
...several fronts at once (see col. 2), WPB last week took direct control of suppliers' inventories in a broad list of 19 trades. Henceforth no wholesaler, distributor or retailer in these trades can carry more than two months' stock on hand (if he lives in the Mountain or Pacific States, three months'). The order covered suppliers to the automotive, building, dairy, electrical, farm, foundry, hardware, plumbing, railroad, restaurant, textile mill and practically every other trade that uses any metal...
Purp was a pre-Pearl Harbor invention of Don Nelson's, aimed at the mountain of paper work (see p. 80) that a war manufacturer has to go through to get separate priorities for dozens of separate materials and purposes. On huge, bright pink Purp blanks, a manufacturer can list all his material needs for all purposes for the coming quarter, get priorities clearance on the whole smear at once. If his needs change during the quarter, he can fill out similar yellow blanks for "interim assistance." Small firms (gross business under $100,000 a year...
...Mountain, high scorer in last week's defeat of the Boston Rugby Club, will lead the Crimson ruggers against a strong Cornell team tomorrow afternoon at 2:15 o'clock. This will be the team's first real test, since last Saturday's contest was considered merely a warm-up. Frank Swerles, Dick Simpson, and "March" Holleb are also expected to start...