Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Journal-American, knows little about playing parlor games, including bridge, but he does know a good thing when he sees it. Over a year ago, when he read that "Monopoly" was selling by millions, his newspaper mind envied such profitable circulation. Forthwith he devised a newspaper game, "Flash News." It was too complicated to sell much more than 10,000 sets (at $2.50) and is presently being simplified. From "Flash News" Editor Spiro did learn, however, that there is money in games-if you don't play them. Soon he secured rights to solitaire "Auto bridge" (a British...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
From the Royse City, Tex. (pop.. 1,128) News-Times...
...jalopies, statistics of their trade are never very precise. Estimates of the used car glut on March 5 ranged from 700,000 to 1,000,000, with the latter figure probably the more accurate (normal: 500,000). Last week, as reports of the drive poured into Detroit, Automotive Daily News estimated that 175,000 used cars had been sold. This reduced dealers' inventories by 60,000 cars, gave them an aggregate $50,000,000 in business. Other figures...
Edwin A. Lahey, 36, reporter for the Chicago Daily News. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he has specialized in labor coverage...