Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a sleet storm so bad that a following DC-4 had to turn back. The DC-6, with its new anti-icing equipment (heated pipes along the leading edges of wings, tail and windshield), went right on through. Three weeks ago, Pat Patterson and about 40 officials and pressmen climbed into a DC-6 in Los Angeles, flew nonstop to New York in 6¾ hours, with the help of a mighty tail wind (top ground speed: 474 m.p.h.). Last week, United took another DC-6 out for a spin. It flew from Omaha to New York in some...
...adless Daily News reached 80,000 circulation despite pickets around the building. Its circulation is now half what the entire monopoly's was before the strike. People bought it, ignoring strikers' pleas to take out-of-town papers instead. Sherman Bowles has reached a truce with his pressmen and stereotypers and hopes to talk his printers into working without a contract. His dispirited employees of the Newspaper Guild, who struck only after he fired them, might be left out in the cold if the other unions went back to work...
Next day, Bowles refused to sign up with the I.T.U., and his printers walked out, took the stereotypers and pressmen with them...
...Accreditation [with the help of a pressmen's committee] of too many persons who went along simply 'for the ride.' . . . These included an attorney, an unaffiliated lecturer who did not file a single story . . . one correspondent who had to be sent home [for misconduct and making a nuisance of himself], and a representative of a beauty magazine...
...rolls of paper we print oh. This slows down the presses, each of which can turn out 15,000 copies an hour. Paper, which is very sensitive, expands, contracts, absorbs moisture, and, when its temperature is not carefully controlled, wraps itself around the cylinders and jams the press. Pressmen then have to pick it off the cylinders-an hours-long...