Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First coated-stock ("slick-paper") cover. The man-on-the-cover that week: Giulio Gatti-Casazza, manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
April 1927-Tide, an advertising trade paper, started by TIME Inc. Sold, November...
...editorial cost of TIME today (not counting paper, printing, distribution, etc.) is $1.48 a word. In 1923 many newspapers had an average editorial cost of a cent a word; their average is still well under a dime. TIME'S $1.48 is spent (sometimes in vain) in looking for significant facts that make the story "come alive"; in checking up on other news media, and on itself; in finding the event's right place in the procession of events...
This operation is, in practice, considerably less rigid and more fallible than it may look on paper. The researchers' dots do not eliminate all error, though the system catches scores of mistakes every week. Writers "freeze up" on stories and stare out the window for hours. Editors get impossible ideas that waste the time of writers, researchers and correspondents. Even the managing editor sometimes gets a literary allusion wrong...
TIME'S editorial offices occupy the 28th and 29th floors of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center. They are plainly furnished and littered with paper. The prevailing atmosphere is tension, tempered by absent-minded civility. Until a lot of newspapermen got on TIME'S staff, the office boys used to whistle at their work; now they obey the 50-year-old newspaper taboo against whistling. On some evenings, still, an old Timer will call Matthews on the office phone and say: "Don't miss the sunset...