Word: newsstande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsstand operator refused, on the grounds that he could operate the stand more efficiently and conveniently without using the central purchasing agency. He heard nothing more of the matter until Tuesday, when his usual bi-weekly order did not appear...
Kekoa D. Kaapu '58, operator of the Eliot House newsstand, asserted yesterday that he "was being pressured to relinquish private, individualistic business practices in the operation of the stand." Kaapu complained that his suppplier had been warned not to deliver further orders to him, presumably to force him to buy through a newly-organized central purchasing agency, a member of the student agencies corporation...
Dustin M. Burke '52, director of the Student Placement Office and general manager of the Student Agencies combine, flatly denied the charge that his office had exerted pressure on the supplier to discourage delivery to Kaapu. He further asserted that newsstand operation would be no less efficient under the proposed system, and stated that operators would make just as much money, since only the directors of the purchasing agency would be taxed...
...separate verbal contract with the mailers, was unaffected by the strike. After a 14-day interval in which it cautiously banned street sales within 30 miles of Boston, the Monitor last week resumed distribution in the city, but it did not have the press capacity to boost its normal newsstand quota...
...Diego Union, which heavily edited its wire copy, explained to readers that it considered the full-leshed story too gamy for a family newspaper. Regardless of the trial's outcome or of Confidential's eventual fate, daily press coverage of the case and the increase in newsstand sales seemed to indicate that millions of readers like to have a spade of dirt called a spade of dirt-as Dirt Spader Harrison has insisted all along...