Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep ahead of her only serious rival, The Grade Teacher (circ. 120,000), Editor Owen constantly trots around to schools, conferences, teachers' conventions. At the National Education Association convention in Boston last month, Miss Owen armed herself with a cake knife and a huge cake celebrating the Instructor's soth birthday, passed out slices...
...countertrend, originated in 1933 by the Albuquerque (N.Mex.) Tribune and Journal, was the pooling of printing presses, business and ad departments without pooling the editorial independence of the papers. A success, the idea has since been adopted by a dozen other rival papers -the Madison Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times, the El Paso Times and Herald Post, the Nashville Banner and Tennessean, the Richmond. (Va.) Times-Dispatch and News Leader, the Tulsa Tribune and World...
Ownership and editorial independence of the rival papers remain as before. Well circulated, however, is the rumor that an unannounced clause in the agreement calls for State Journal support of Capper's candidacy for re-election in 1942. Both Capper and Stauffer are isolationist...
Before Pennsy could get ICC approval of this arrangement, it had to overcome objections by the rival New York Central. Pennsy now owns a 30% stock interest in the Lehigh Valley Railroad (which connects Buffalo with New York Harbor); Wabash owns another 21%; and the thought of a Pennsy-Wabash-Lehigh tie-up gave New York Central competitive fits. As a fit-cure, Pennsy agreed to deposit its Lehigh stock, along with the Wabash's, with independent voting trustees...
When Mutual signed with ASCAP last May, it offered to ASCAP 3% of its gross receipts, but its contract gives it the privilege of scaling down this fee to match any more favorable deal rival networks might make with ASCAP. CBS was still outside the fold last week, but it seemed likely to follow NBC's suit, sign up with ASCAP at drastically reduced fees. ASCAP went to war full of steam and confidence...