Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger type is a definite trend in U. S. publishing, though few have gone so far as Los Angeles' Times. To revise its format, a paper of the Times's size starts by spending some $10,000 for new type matrices. Because the larger type prints less news per page, at least twro more typesetting machines are needed to compose the additional two or three pages. Such machines cost around $4,500 each, are manned by operators earning $58 to $65 per week...
Other major newspapers which have changed type faces for the better in the past twelvemonth: Boston Herald and Traveler and Transcript; Chicago Herald & Examiner and Tribune; Detroit News; Minneapolis Star; Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch...
...weekly magazine called Pathfinder was established at Washington in 1894 by George Dean Mitchell. Republican son of a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania. Young George Mitchell filled his publication with rewrites of the week's news, political articles, journalistic odds & ends "for all the family." At $1 a year, Pathfinder soon prospered, became A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER FOR YOUNG AMERICANS supported by many a patent medicine advertisement. In 1914 War news zipped circulation up steeply. To economize in 1931 Owner Mitchell fired his staff, wrote all of Pathfinder himself well enough to satisfy his farm and small-town audience...
Conspicuously absent from the list of college stars from which Coach Bierman's team was drafted last week was one Chief William Loane West, half-breed Indian from Anniston, Ala., who last fortnight got into the news by registering at the University of California, admitting that he was 46 years old and stating that he would try to make the Varsity football team. True to his boast. Chief West last week trotted out for conditioning practice. He got a mild "Charley horse" when another squad member, carrying the Chief's 216 Ib. hulk down the field...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...