Word: pressrooms
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...parent of the present Pulitzers, proprietors of the World. Atop the building glints the famed gold dome, and that remains the same. The deep intestines of the building have been changed. Four years ago executives perceived that equipment in printing, paper and production had exceeded the capacity of the pressrooms. Uneven quality of paper and shaky printing made no daily match for the immaculately dressed Times and Herald-Tribune. Discarding a possibility of deserting the traditional building, the proprietors decreed a new pressroom. In quarters so cramped that two famed manufacturers refused the contract, an entirely new equipment has been...
...Last Edition" which, for some reason unknown to us was included on the same bill stars the portly Ralph Lewis, who has been everything from a good mail man to a bad boy scout, as foreman of a pressroom. We quarrel with this picture on grounds of professional honesty. When a press room no matter what press room assumes some such motto as Love, Honor and Purity then someone is lying and ought to have his mouth washed out with soap. The type setter's quartet broadcasting "Sweet Adcline" before the evening's work, for all the world like...
...young man, indicated by the arrow, put there so that you may identify him, is W. R. Hearst, Jr., learning something about his father's newspaper business in the pressroom and, as the rules require, working with a union card in his pocket...
...William R. Hearst, Jr., unusually tall for his age, is several years younger than the average pressroom worker...
Sophomores only may compete for the news end and the competition will last approximately 12 weeks. The work, though hard, is extremely interesting and instructive. No previous journalistic experience is necessary to quality for this department for both the news gathering and pressroom work can be learned in a short time...