Word: pressroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.F.L. pressmen's union, had sent a telegram to his St. Louis local, ordering it to drop its plan for a slowdown strike. When the pressmen discovered a story about Boss Berry's decision in the afternoon Post-Dispatch and Star-Times they pulled the pressroom switches and walked out, right in the middle of the press run. After a five-hour walkout, union leaders, aware of the evil implications of such press censorship, talked the pressmen into going back-but too late for the rest of that day's newspapers to get out on the streets...
...pressroom the tourists saw big banners, bearing such slogans as "The Socialist obligation of the five-year plan is to do the best you can." One was more curt: "Get the paper out on time...
...other foreigners did. His China Weekly Review became a highly respected journal of news and opinion. Long before it became the fashion, the militant little paper took sides against the invading Japanese. When they tried to silence him with bribes and threats, Powell sneered at them and lined his pressroom doors with steel. The day after Pearl Harbor, the Japs shut up his shop, and later clapped Editor Powell into filthy, ice-cold Bridgehouse Prison. Before he got out, starvation had cut his weight in half, and gangrene had turned his feet into shapeless lumps...
...year-old weekly on London's Bouverie Street it was the 5,378th issue; for the new editor, it was the first. To appraise his work, his staffers grabbed the first damp copies that came up from the pressroom. Page One was reassuring (it had a lovers' lane murder yarn) and inside there were headlines like JURY TOLD OF HER LIFE WITH MAN CALLED A 'BEAST,' and CHASTITY PACT BROKEN, SAYS JUDGE...
...pressroom last week, a telling diplomatic exchange took place. On their bulletin board, correspondents discovered a notice charging that some members of the press posed as delegates in order to get comfortable rides home in delegation cars. The offenders were requested to refrain from such tactics. Within ten minutes a retaliatory notice appeared: "It has come to the attention of the U.N. Correspondents Association that some delegates have been posing as reporters in order to ascertain what is going on in some committees. This practice must stop...