Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last August Earl Jones made up his mind to start a newspaper of his own. He set wreckers to work tearing down a three-story apartment house one block off Zanesville's main street. When he learned that the job would take two weeks, he brought in crews and equipment from his mines, wrecked the building overnight. Then, under floodlights, working night & day, his men started putting up a new $75,000 brick, steel and concrete newspaper plant...
...honored was Scribner's to be abandoned utterly. First, Publisher Dave Smart of Esquire went salvaging on the spot where it had disappeared (TIME, Sept. 4), dredged up its 80,000 circulation at a reputed cost of $11,000. Then Publisher Charles Shipman Payson of The Commentator set out to salvage Scribner's itself...
When the war began, Britain's Ministry of Information kept Britain practically without information for three weeks. Then public opinion revolted, British newspapers raged at the Government for keeping silent, Lords and Commons made open fun of the censors. So Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain quickly set up a new Department of Press Censorship and News Distribution, which occupies the same building that housed the Ministry, and is mostly staffed by the same censors. Here are the first pictures to show them at their work, no longer bungling quite so badly as they...
...broadcast had been a new symphony by 41-year-old U. S. Composer Roy Harris. But when it was brought to Maestro Toscanini's attention that expatriate Composer Strong was past 80, he substituted Strong's piece, cabled Strong to listen in on his Swiss radio set...
...Pasadena: the 13th annual tournament of the U. S. Professional Tennis Association (in which were entered all the top-ranking U. S. pros, with the notable exception of Don Budge); defeating Defending Champion Fred Perry in the final, 8-6, 6-8, 6-1, 20-18; in the movie set setting of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, at Beverly Hills, Calif. Star attraction of the tournament was greying, still garrulous Bill Tilden, who, in his first appearance on a U. S. tennis court in almost three years, demonstrated that he still has the most formidable strokes of any player...