Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After duplicating his Tribune circulation success with the Patterson-McCormick New York Daily News (largest in the U. S.), Circulator Annenberg was put in charge of circulating Liberty when it was founded in 1924. Later he was given the general managership. That meant supervising the sale of white-space as well as newsstand sales. Manager Annenberg drove into the job. Than Liberty's advertising sales-methods nothing more high-powered has ever been seen in the business. But advertising men are different from newsdealers. They must be coaxed, cannot be driven. Somehow, Liberty's advertising did not keep...
With a two-thirds quorum already chosen, the Board was ready to organize. Its first duty was to get itself squared away in Washington. Looking for possible office space, inspectors went through the old Southern R. R. building, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street, lately acquired by the U. S. Secretaries, assistants, experts, clerks-the large personnel of bureaucracy -had to be hired, set to work...
President Park, recipient of four honorary degrees prior to Swarthmore's. was omitted, with many another, to save space...
Hence prize contestants must fly level at no faster than 35 m.p.h., get a variable speed in normal flight of 45 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., glide three minutes at 38 m.p.h. with engine shut off, land within a 100-ft. space, take off in 300 ft., gain more than 35 ft. altitude within 500 ft. of starting takeoff, and fly "hands off." A manufacturer's pilot may put the plane through its best maneuvers. Guggenheim Fund pilots then try the plane themselves...
...South Carolina in 1925, "Bertha Lowman . . . squirmed in her pain over the cleared space of the tourist camp. . . . The shifting target and the half-light cost the mob many bullets...