Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual losses had been reduced to $400,000. But Publisher Meyer was having too good a time with his newspaper to be fazed by such deficits. Last week, he celebrated the anniversary of his entry into the Fourth Estate by announcing the acquisition of the foreign news service and 14 features from the New York Herald Tribune, including Walter Lippmann, Dorothy Thompson, Mark Sullivan, Book Reviewer Lewis Garnett, Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., Sports Columnist Richards Vidmer and the impeccable Lucius Beebe, to whom Washington dress is "a little like country folks in sports clothes...
...about 25,000. Since the last convention, the Guild conducted eleven strikes, more than in all its four previous years. About 450 strikers were involved, more than double the total ever on strike before. Of the eleven strikes, the Guild called nine "definite victories," one lost, one (Hollywood Citizen-News) still in progress...
...latter view is taken by the editors of Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin (chemical news and scientific miscellany), who discussed the British dew ponds in last week's issue and gave an explanation of the heat economy which makes them possible. "Recent research," said the Bulletin, "has shown that water is nearly perfect as a 'black body' or a body that easily gives off heat by radiation." The pond must keep cool so that dew will condense in it, and so that it will not lose much water by evaporation. If it is insulated...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
Among other items in last week's price news were two which surely pleased Franklin Roosevelt, one which offered some hope of business improvement: 1) The price of galvanized steel sheet was cut $3 a ton. Steel is one thing that Franklin Roosevelt still considers too costly and he has often remarked that the steel industry will not revive until prices are cut. But steel prices are as stiff as any in the country and this opinion bounced off steelmasters like BB shot off a tank. Last week it seemed that where Franklin Roosevelt had failed to dent their...