Word: signboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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matter more, he lines a homer to the signboard...
Over the years the dailies gradually moved out or folded, until only the Globe was left on Newspaper Row. Every day, for 86 years, an employee of the Globe had climbed a ladder propped against the building and posted headlines on a wooden signboard. Early last month a final bulletin went up: "Globe says goodbye to Newspaper Row." Last week Globe Editor Larry Winship was proudly showing Massachusetts newsmen the four-color presses in his paper's new $12 million building in nearby Dorchester; and, for the first time since 1860, Washington Street was without a daily newspaper...
...Boss. All that remains to remind people of the hated era of collectivization, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes from Morawice last week, is a little signboard in the center of the village square, which .bears faded posters of another government, with pictures of Warsaw's Russian-built "Palace of Culture." The new attitude towards the party was summed up by an ancient pitchfork-brandishing farmer: "I'm my own boss now and when some party man comes out to tell me to go out to rake hay for the nation, I have a big needle for his back...