Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce, ever conscious that in event of war a closed Mediterranean would leave Italy seriously crippled for food and raw materials, annually stores part of the wheat crop as a war measure, sells a sizable portion abroad for needed foreign exchange. Thus last year, while the nation on paper produced enough for home use, Italy in fact suffered a wheat shortage. Bakers, unable to purchase sufficient wheat flour, eked out their dough with substitutes like corn flour, bean flour, ground lentils or ground ceci, yellow, bean-like pellets. The Government legalized this adulteration up to 20% but bakers took advantage...
...their widening interests have meant greater dependence on centralized services. For editorial matter outside of local topics, some of them use the Western Newspaper Union, world's largest and oldest publishing syndicate. With 34 branch plants in principal U. S. cities, W. N. U. sells type, printing machinery, paper and 400 features to 10,732 daily and weekly newspapers. For national advertising, some 5,000 country papers are represented by the American Press Association, which is no association but an advertising representative, which last year placed about $2,500,000 of the $7,000,000 of national advertising...
...Perry's qualifications as a rural press titan include ownership of the American Press, trade paper for weeklies, and Publishers' Autocaster Service, which has cut costs for national advertisers by selling country publishers thousands of casting boxes for making plates. Mr. Perry entered the publishing business as an attorney for the James G. Scripps papers in the Northwest. Later he became national counsel for the United Press Associations, the Scripps Newspapers and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Publisher Perry owns four dailies in Florida† and the bright Reading, Pa. Times. He has made money in Florida real estate...
Named vice-chairman was shrewd. 58-year-old, Carolina-born, W. (for William) Harllee Branch, a Washington news correspondent who, after 30 years in news paper work from typesetting to editing, became executive assistant to Postmaster General Farley in 1933. Only airline executive named to the Authority was 34-year-old Socialite George Grant Mason Jr., foreign representative of Pan American Airways in charge of Caribbean service. Iowa-born, New York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year...
...specializing in toilet tissue, developing its technology steadily, and leading the industry in price-cutting, Scott Paper Co. increased its dollar sales 19-fold between...