Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Readers of The New York Times yesterday celebrated the end of the New York newspaper strike with an enthusiasm usually reserved for the return of a long-lost relative...
...because a lot of Times readers will buy nothing else," James Finn, supervisor of the stand said yesterday. While he declined to release any circulation figures, Finn said the sale of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal did not match the daily sale of Times before the strike, which began August...
...Corner, employee George Fielding stood idly by a stack of unsold copies of the WallStreet Journal. Sales of the Journal declined today. Fielding said. "We sold 600 copies of the Times today until we ran out at 2 p.m.," he said, adding, "On an average day before the strike, we would sell about 300 copies...
Olive said that because of the strike the price of a daily and Sunday subscription through the end of the academic year will be reduced from $68 to $52.75. Daily subscriptions will cost $25.15 rather than the usual $32.05, and Sunday subscriptions will be reduced to $27.60 from...
...long strike wears on, the public seems to feel less of a need for news. It has found other things to do, other things to read. Michael O'Neill, the wryly cheerful editor of the Daily News, acknowledges a cultural shock in himself: he feels uncomfortably out of touch with the city. The mayor greets him and says, "Is anything happening? and asks nervously, "How am I doing...