Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of peak seasonal employment. Bridges called the strike off after five days. The incident illustrated the paradoxical weakness in Bridges' position. He could cripple the islands' limited economy, or he could starve the islands with a longshoremen's strike. But in the process the workers would hurt themselves...
With somewhat less ease the Chicago papers had also bypassed the printers. In three weeks of strike, the papers had worked the major kinks out of the new photoengraving (VariType) process that had replaced typesetting. Papers were normal size, and readers who had complained about the typed look now liked it: they found the bigger type easier to read. As it took up more space, editors had to sharpen their stories...
...process was more expensive than typesetting (one estimate was about 30% more) but the cost was dropping fast. Though it might take five years to make it as cheap and efficient as linotype, some editors thought it had already caused "a revolution." Said one: "One sure change will be the use of larger type. Let this machine be developed a little more, and the cost of starting a newspaper will be very little. Instead of $50,000 or $100,000 for linotype machines to start a smalltown paper, I'll bet you could start one for $10,000 with...
...elected, nor would I have served if I had been-but, under the circumstances, the fact that I failed of election by only three votes out of a total ballot of over eight hundred is a more than sufficient exposure of the absurdity of the electoral process as it functions in the college. To complete my nomination petition my campaign managers approached only thirty-six students, none of whom were acquainted with me. Only one man refused to sign the petition on the ground that he didn't know me, while five refused to sign because they had already signed...
...Student Council is not moved, by this demonstration of the absurdity of the college electoral process, to take strong measures to revitalize undergraduate political awareness, let them then take note of the further fact that I, late candidate Fred B. Applegate, did not even exist. Fred B. Applegate...