Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first problem facing the Big Show this year was whether the Office of Defense Transportation would let it go on at all. Its pressmen, trained in superlative promotion, flooded the country with quotes on the morale value of circuses ranging from Greek literature to an account of the circus in Moscow (by Leland Stowe). They even talked about fighting inflation (the circus would sop up purchasing power), promised the Treasury that they would exchange war bonds for seats at every performance (total circus war-bond sales in Manhattan...
...Even its pressmen and linotypers are un-begrimed. In its cathedral-quiet newsroom, newsmen (85% of them Christian Scientists) always wear their coats, never cuss or smoke...
...dome of St. Paul's. His shyness once drew from King Vidor an indirect compliment: "That guy would have been a top Hollywood director but he just didn't know how to blow his own horn." Said MacDonald last fortnight, to a preview group of film and pressmen: "These combat scenes can be done in Hollywood and you can do them very nicely, without loss of life. In making this film, there was loss of life. I think the film shows...
...Angeles, the Thalia Fortescue Massie assault case in Honolulu, the Santa Barbara earthquake, the loss of the dirigible Macon. In 1938 he stopped reporting, became a United Press vice president, in charge of the Pacific Coast area. As such he sat behind a San Francisco desk, sent other United Pressmen forth to Pacific battlefields. But Frank Bartholomew grew restless...
...home front, too, has come through very little better. Here pettifogging tactics by Office of Censorship employees frequently annoy cooperative correspondents in the field of national news. In June a group of Washington pressmen made a 24-day tour of important war plants as the guests of the National Association of Manufacturers. Accompanied by one Navy and six Army censors, the correspondents were forbidden to publish production figures that frequently appeared, fully covered, in local papers. At one plant they could not even mention the product manufactured, while it was being currently featured in a full-page magazine advertisement. Equally...