Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...established an advertising office there and, a year later, began printing TIME in Los Angeles for distribution to the Pacific Coast states and Alaska. At present, 300,000 weekly copies of TIME and 700,000 copies of LIFE are printed in Los Angeles at Pacific Press, the largest printing plant west of Chicago. And, in keeping with the spectacular growth of Southern California, TIME Inc.'s Los Angeles bureau now consists of 25 reporters, photographers, etc. As such, it is second only to Washington, D.C. as our largest and busiest U.S. news bureau...
...amply illustrated by the case of V. S. Pyatov. In 1859, Pyatov tried to get a patent on his method of rolling armor plate. The czarist government submitted it to "foreign vultures" for their opinion, was informed that the invention was dangerous and impractical. A year later, the Soviet press asserted, the plate was produced by a vulture named Brown, in Sheffield, England. The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs on to the wedge breechblock and the wool-combing machine...
...Czech's powerful service worked like a charm. After that it began to sputter; Drobny's weakness has always been inconsistency, a failing which prompts Prague's Communist-controlled press to call him a bourgeois when he loses, praise him as the standard-bearer of "our people's democratic republic" when he wins. Schroeder swept easily through the second and third sets, misfired in the fourth. But he never seemed in serious danger, and ran out the final game of the fifth set at love to win his first Wimbledon title...
...given a lusty preview of the national anti-VD campaign which opened last week in more than 300 cities in 28 states. The U.S. Public Health Service, helping to plan and synchronize the local efforts, had arranged with the Communication Materials Center of New York's Columbia University Press to provide posters, car cards, window displays, pamphlets and match books...
Labor's truculent Health Minister Aneurin Bevan had called British news papers "the most prostituted press in the world." The National Union of Journalists (which the weekly Economist labeled "the fifth column of the fourth estate") had been even more specific. It charged Britain's Tory press lords with operating monopolies, kowtowing to advertisers, distorting and withholding the news, and blacklisting (i.e., refusing to mention) political and personal enemies. To investigate charges of this kind, and perhaps to lay the groundwork for regulation of the press, the House of Commons voted to set up a Royal Commission...