Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benefits ranging up to $60 a week. (Some of the strikers had found work in job shops; others had shifted to newspapers in nearby cities.) The publishers were under no pressure to settle either. They had so well ironed out the mechanical wrinkles of printing by Vari-Typers and similar machines that the Chicago Daily News had reached an alltime circulation high (505.277). Fortnight ago, the Trib had turned out the fattest daily paper (84 pages) in its history. But if newspapers looked much the same as in pre-strike days, they did not read the same. By & large, stories...
...most newspapers, payroll savings had balanced both the increased engraving costs and the expense of installing Vari-Typers and similar equipment from International Business Machines. The Trib, which used to pay its 460 printers about $45,000 a week, now pays its 161 VariType operators only $10,000 a week. By putting more money and more thought than its rivals into developing the new process, the Trib had gotten the best results. In news coverage and news play, also, it was still Chicago's liveliest sheet. Nevertheless, its circulation had slumped-from 1,010,000 at the strike...
...could have been thinking of the great Rogers Hornsby, who played for several seasons after a similar operation...
...bath time. And it is not earlier than 10:00 that the Friendly Nurse barks into the snoring student's car, "Ha-ha-ha--I guess you're got the sleeping sickness." Similar interruptions follow throughout the day, invariably accompanied by aspirin, alcohol rubs, more washrags, and a little by podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 a.m. podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 p.m. the final Cheerful Nurse appears carrying a bottle of huge red Seconal pills. "Medication for sleep," she calls them...
...Stillman care is cautions. Smith stayed in the small respiratory ward three weeks; the first week was the best. He discovered a batch of jig-saw puzzles thoughtfully placed on a shelf in the ward, and completed the lot, though all were marked with "seven damn pieces missing" or similar discouraging comments...