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...ambition: to outdo Amelia Earhart...
...shape than the Chattanooga paper when Adolph Ochs bought it. It had only 9,000 circulation, owed $300,000 and was losing $1,000 every day. Against it was not only Bennett's Herald but also Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal, each trying to outdo the other in yellowness. Then it was that Adolph Ochs introduced to New York the editorial formula which was to shape the journalistic standards of the entire country. With his new-coined slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print," he announced a "clean, dignified and trustworthy" newspaper...
...home stretch, he praised Tasmanian woodsmen for sawing through a 6 ft. 4 in. block of wood in 31 sec., beamed at Sydney's effort to outdo Melbourne's hospitality with a portrait of himself in fireworks 70 ft. high, and helped New South Walesmen round up 300 kangaroos...
...Just as the automobile drove the less convenient horse and buggy off the street, as the steamship out-sailed the sailing ship, as the printed book displaced the handwritten manu script, so will radio outdo the slower, more expensive and cumbersome newspaper, as a distributor of news...
...risk a court fight against the Ford millions. Mr. Ford's higher wage scale than the code's weakened any boycott appeal. And there remained a chance that, when he did announce his plans, sly old Henry Ford, again with the White House for his amplifier, would outdo the NRA and his competitors in other respects than hours & wages...