Word: pagers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had brought on the disaster? One obvious cause: falling revenue and inflated costs had squeezed the profit out of the newspaper business. Ten years ago an eight-page paper sold for half a franc; today a four-pager costs 5 francs. And newsprint has gone from 2,500 francs a ton in 1939 ($62.76) to 35,000 ($114.63). Furthermore, the sins of the prewar press had been visited on the postwar press...
Storm Center. At the heart of all the whoopdedoo was a dead calm: nobody was excited in the quiet, blue-walled pressroom of the Criminal Courts Building where Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur laid the scene of their famed newspaper play. Grey survivors of Front Pager Hildy Johnson's day were at work on the story. Said 63-year-old Albert Benziger of the Herald-American: "This is without doubt the damnedest story we've ever had. Hildy would be having a hell of a time with...