Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Newspaper Guild employees on issues of wages and benefits. Still, a dozen Inquirer executives, plus 70 nonstriking Guildsmen. were managing to get out some 17,000 copies a day. The non-Guild Bulletin (707,406) was selling more than 100,000 copies daily in its lobby. Neither paper was accepting...
Only nonstruck major Philadelphia paper was the Daily News (circ. 191,666) of Walter H. Annenberg's Triangle Publications, which also owns the Inquirer. The News was standing steady at its normal press run. refusing to take any extra ads, and discreetly printing almost nothing about the strike...
...paper is a colossal bore. Turgid editorials crawl on, column after column; leaden propaganda handouts in the form of "news" stories weigh down the front page. But in Communist China, nearly everyone who is anyone reads the People's Daily of Peking-and for good reason. As the official organ of both party and government. the eight-page daily (circ. 700,000) is handbook and scripture to right-thinking Chinese Reds...
Last week People's Daily celebrated the tenth anniversary of its birth in 1948 in Yenan, whence the Communist leaders had launched their grab for all China. Today the paper employs 500 card-carrying newsmen, has just moved into a gleaming new Peking building equipped with eight gleaming new presses from East Germany, and can claim some of the most devoted readers in the world. Issues are posted at city intersections, read aloud down on the farm, devoured top to bottom and right to left by jailed counter-revolutionaries taking the cure, and spelled out by Asiatic nomads...
...ease the ennui of story after story on agriculture reform and steel production, People's Daily offers no sports page, no comics, no Peking Tom gossipists. Instead, the paper prints letters from readers complaining about such matters as the size of bicycles ("I am 4 ft. 10 in. tall, and I've been waiting for a suitably sized bicycle for years"), and leaky fountain pens exported to Russia ("The consequences could be bad''). Occasionally, someone will attack a minor partyman. Item: an 'official named Kuo Pei-cheng was accused of keeping a 14-year...