Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Springfield, Mass...
...Middletown Signal. He always had "a passionate interest in newspapers." Turning passion into profit, he put the Dayton Daily News into the black in less than five years after he bought the paper (for $26,000) in 1898, bought the Dayton Journal-Herald (current circ. 93,290), the Springfield, Ohio morning Sun (17,874) and Daily News (30,044) while expanding into Georgia and Florida (where the Miami Daily News is the only Cox paper that is not solidly in the black...
...Trailsend. Publisher Cox allowed his papers to keep their own personalities, gave free rein to his local publishers-who sometimes showed more concern for the cash register than the crusading journalism for which James Cox stood. (All Cox dailies are Democratic except the pro-Ike Dayton Journal-Herald and Springfield Sun.) Overall management of the seven-paper group and a string of allied TV and radio stations fell increasingly to James Cox Jr., the twice-married publisher's son. But the governor still showed up at his Dayton office, held frequent long-distance powwows with Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph...
...SHAPIRO Springfield...
...Star. Two Moonwatch teams near Washington have already had live practice. At Springfield, Va. 20 observers arranged themselves after dark under an odd-looking "T" of iron pipe with dim lights glowing at the ends of its horizontal member. The T showed the meridian, and the observers trained their telescopes so that their overlapping fields covered a north-and-south slice of sky through which the satellite should pass...