Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several highly mathematical reasons why the U. S. is not going broke. He repeated one of them three times, not from the memo but from memory. As unanimously reported by the correspondents present it ran: From 1932 to 1939, decreases in State, county and local debts were enough to offset increases in Federal debt...
...Construction, contracts placed in 1940's first six weeks are 24% below the $412,263,000 placed in the same period of 1939. Reason: failure of privately financed construction (up $31,583,000) to offset the $131,404,000 decline in government financed contracts...
Opelousas' Daily World is not the first offset daily, nor James Fitzgibbon's first attempt. Year ago, in Texas, he started the offset Monahan's Express. Taken ill a few months later, he turned the Express into a weekly. Last November he sold out, packed up and moved to Opelousas...
...eight-page, tabloid-size picture paper, the World is at present the only offset daily in the U. S. With a small bi-weekly as his sole competitor, Editor Fitzgibbon at the end of his first month had a paid circulation of 1,300, plenty of advertising. Using a linotype to set up his copy, he could compete with many a metropolitan newspaper in neatness and variety of makeup. When the World wanted to print an election extra with a special head, Fitzgibbon went around the corner to a department store, made his paste-up head with a stencil, printed...
From U. S. publishers great and small, Editor Fitzgibbon last week had received some 500 letters asking him how offset worked. His answer: operating costs with linotype and offset presses (laboriously sheet-fed) are not more than 10% lower. But initial costs are cut too, may bring the total saving to 15%. So pleased with offset is James Fitzgibbon that he plans to look around for some more small towns without newspapers, try to develop a chain of offset dailies...