Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your March 17 Press section tries to condemn the Atlanta Journal's recession coverage ... 1) TIME says "The Journal suppressed the news of a layoff of 2,000 Lockheed workers last fall until it could report that the factory had found other jobs for some of them." Lockheed announced the layoff August 15. We printed it August 15, under a three-column headline. We printed it again August 30. It was four months later . . . that we carried our first story on the factory finding other jobs for them. 2) TIME says the Journal, until last week, "even banned...
TIME stated that the Memphis Press-Scimitar "last week ran a glowing story on expansion plans for a local Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant-without mentioning that 2,600 of its 3,600 employees have been laid off." The only recent Press-Scimitar story about possible Firestone expansion in Memphis was printed in the Press-Scimitar on Nov. 19, 1957. Raymond C. Firestone, company president, on a visit to Memphis, was asked by a Press-Scimitar reporter if the company planned any expansion in Memphis in 1958. He replied:'"We have expanded the Memphis plant every year...
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Washington was ready. The U.S.'s response: it will go ahead with its tests. At his press conference, the President had already invited the world to watch the U.S. demonstration of a "clean" bomb...