Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon became a handmaid for advertisers. Today, Printers' Ink, still pocket-size, is a weekly with 17,803 subscribers who spend nearly all of the nation's annual $1,768,000,000 na tional advertising budget. This week it marked its golden anniversary with a 472-page special edition summarizing the development of U. S. business as it was recorded in P. I.'s 2,571 preceding issues...
Born year and a half ago in the Manhattan hardware store of British-born William George Lemmon, where the household help of rich metropolitan families buy supplies and exchange gossip, Staff has grown from a leaflet to a 24-page illustrated monthly magazine. It reaches the pantries of 5,000 big U. S. homes...
...flight around the Temperate Zone (see pp. 36, 50) last week had every managing editor poised for a beat on his local rivals. Day of the fliers' return to the U. S., "Cissie" Patterson's sprightly Washington Times appeared on the streets with a four-column, front-page picture purporting to show the plane on the landing field in Minneapolis. Same day, in its final edition, the Times crowed that it had beaten its competitors to the street by 27 minutes with the story of Hughes's landing in New York...
Next day, on page three of Frank Brett Noyes's dignified Star appeared a three-column ad headed: TRUTH ALONG WITH SPEED. That picture "in an afternoon paper yesterday," the Star snorted, was not Hughes's plane in Minneapolis but Hughes's plane at Floyd Bennett Field before the takeoff. Proudly the Star reprinted its genuine shot of Hughes in Minneapolis...
Same afternoon, in a front-page notice, the Scripps-Howard tabloid News pointed out that its own presses were printing papers telling in minutes and seconds the time of Hughes's arrival in New York six minutes after it happened. Scowled the News: "Now, if the Times was on the street 27 minutes before the News, it must then follow that the Times was telling about the event before it occurred. This is known, in the parlance of poker and questionable duping of the public in journalism, as 'cold decking...