Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoker was probably the cause of the blaze, Deputy Chief Henry Kilfoyle claimed. An unextinguished cigarette "could have lain smoldering several hours" before spreading to some paper...
Interdependence. For one thing, U.S. oil was used to drive machinery in western Canada's newsprint mills. If the mills slowed down or stopped for lack of fuel, many a newspaper on the U.S. West Coast would soon be out of paper. Canada supplies 80% of U.S. newsprint consumption, and much of it could be sold elsewhere at higher prices in the present world famine. The same is true of minerals (especially copper, zinc and lead...
Then the Times rashly accused Irish Patriot Charles Stewart Parnell of condoning murder by Irish terrorists, and as evidence printed a letter supposedly written by Parnell. The government inquiry that proved the letter a forgery cost the paper ?200,000, wrecked its reputation and left it without capital to repel the privateers of the penny press...
Last week, pleased by one accomplishment but alarmed by the other, the New Republic was shaken by another surge of frantic economizing. Editor Michael Straight, whose family has footed the New Republic's steady deficit since 1914, had given up the dream of a slick-paper product with lavish displays of half-tones, big names and special art work. Gone, in the undertow of the economy wave, was a flock of staffers. The staff was still bigger than in pre-Wallace days, but the survivors had that worried "who's next" look. The trouble was that the magazine...
...Huckel, son-in-law of Fred Harvey, the railroad restaurant man. Huckel got interested in sand paintings 26 years ago, when he was looking for an Indian motif to decorate a Harvey hotel lobby in Gallup, N.Mex. He asked a Navajo medicine man named Miguelito to put some on paper for him. Miguelito was hesitant, but after trying one and coming to no harm from the Powers, he and his fellow medicine men painted more...