Word: scours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business- much as large metropolitan department stores have treated neighborhood stores. On the other hand, aeroplane delivery would greatly alter the question of what news is worth printing. One of the San Francisco newspapers carried to New York bore in its headlines: BANDITS KILL POKER PLAYER; POSSES SCOUR MOUNTAINS FOR WOUNDED MAN; MRS. KERR FINED $10 FOR BATTERY OF WOMAN. Scandal may be useful for a national circulation, but " local stories" are not. If aeroplanes extend the range of newspaper circulation they may do away with "local news." But they have...