Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tons of Paper. The trial of Tojo and 27 other top war criminals began in Tokyo 2½ years ago in the black painted granite building which had been the Japanese War Ministry, on a hill behind the Emperor's palace. Eleven nations were represented on the Allied tribunal. * The trial cost $9,000,000, used up 100 tons of paper. Shorthand writers took down nearly 10 million words of argument and testimony. During the trial two defendants died; one, who began acting queerly, was sent to a mental hospital...
Nanking's mood fluctuated sharply with every report from the front. Early in the week hungry, hopeless mobs looted 50 rice shops whose owners refused to accept paper currency. From the police station just opposite one shop, a few white-helmeted guardians of law and order watched without interfering. "What shall we do?" asked one. "The government must not stand in the way of its hungry people...
Meantime, foreign correspondents in Paris received elegantly printed invitations asking them to a "cocktail de la paix" to be given the following evening, from 6 to 8,-in the offices of the Communist daily paper, L'Humanité. Eyebrows shot up, for it was the first time "L'Huma" had ever done anything like this. Few foreigners ever get past the guards at the entrance of the paper...
...York shouldn't have changed 'sharply' to 'facetiously'. . . At what point do you slip over from explanatory reporting and get into opinion, so that you should be run on the editorial page?" Wilbur Cogshall of the Louisville Courier-Journal said that individual papers must decide. When Cogshall's paper finds Scotty Reston too interpretive, it runs Reston on the editorial page...
...eight years, the British press has had barely enough paper to keep alive, and not nearly enough to tell all the news. For nine postwar months, the Labor government let newspapers print all the copies they could sell. But in the summer of 1947, to cut down imports, the government again froze circulations and cut most standard-size papers back to four measly pages...