Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months since they took Shanghai from the Chinese, the Japanese have gradually tightened their censorship of the Chinese and English language press. Papers outside the International Settlement were easy to deal with, and even those inside have tactfully toned down their anti-Japanese news. But one newspaper the Japanese have been unable to muzzle is Ta Mei Wan Pao (meaning Great American Evening Newspaper), Chinese-language edition of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, which is owned by the Far East's No. 1 life insurer, bustling Cornelius Vander Starr. By printing pictures of Chinese resistance in West China...
...Newport News, Va. one noon last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt cracked a bottle of U. S. champagne over the steel prow of the biggest, costliest (34,000-ton, $17,000,000) passenger ship ever made in the U. S., christened her America. As 30,000 well-wishers gave a lusty cheer, America glided sedately down ways slicked with 45,000 Ibs. of grease. Proudest man there was Chairman of the Maritime Commission Rear Admiral Emory Scott ("Jerry") Land, under whose supervision United States Lines' big* liner had been constructed. At scoffers he scoffed: "For the dogmatic and somewhat cynical...
Earlier that morning the transatlantic cable had flashed the news: the London Exchange had been closed. By 9:45, 15 minutes before the Exchange was to open, President Henry G. S. Noble had managed to gather together 36 of its 42 governors. In Wall Street the bankers were meeting again. From all over the U. S. demands that the Exchange be closed poured in on the bankers' meeting. At the last minute, the telephone connection set up between Exchange governors and the bankers failed to work. In the excitement the bankers forgot to man their end of the line...
...incredible fact of war all but eclipsed the fact that last week had its full quota of peacetime business news...
...able fact-finders, Paul W. Stewart and J. Frederick Dewhurst, told them to make some sense out of the U. S.'s distribution machinery. Result (published last week): Does Distribution Cost Too Much, a survey which, but for war, might last week have been the biggest news to U. S. business. Its prime conclusions...