Word: newsstande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed with which TIME is usually delivered from the printer to the news dealer in the U.S. was aptly illustrated recently by John Rogan, manager of the St. Louis branch of the American News Co., the national organization which distributes most of our newsstand copies. Copies of TIME, printed in Chicago, arrive at his offices in St. Louis at 7 a.m. Thursday. According to Rogan, "They're still hot from the special heat process used for quick-drying the ink. Often they're still warm when the news dealers first touch them. To my mind, it really emphasizes...
...Janeiro. "The war jumped the newsstand sale of U.S. publications 25% here. Brazilians want to know what the score is. Americans want to know what isn't told in the communiques: How high are prices going? What about the draft? Should they cable home and order a new car? Should they offer their services to the U.S. war effort...
...Pacific edition, which is printed in Honolulu and Tokyo from cellophane proofs and negatives flown from the U.S., has 38,000 subscribers and newsstand buyers in the non-Communist nations of the Pacific. Of these, 1,200 were in Korea. We had hoped to get the July 3 issue with its news of U.S. armed intervention in Korea to our readers there, but the fall of Seoul prevented that...
Caniff, who began reading TIME in his political science courses in college, said that it has figured in his work in many ways. He gets two copies a week-one by subscription, the other on the newsstand. He files TIME stories for future reference, and often has to have both sides of a page. These stories, he added, have been the inspiration for many of his comic strip adventures...
Along this conveyor belt the stapled magazines now move to the mail room where subscribers' copies are addressed automatically on a mailing machine from a strip of names, listed by state and city. Then the magazines are put into mail bags; bundles are made up for newsstand shipment. Less than 24 hours after TIME has gone to press, it is on its way to readers all over...