Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's Michigan Avenue last week, a little band of pickets paced wearily back & forth in front of the Gothic tower of the Tribune. Red and black letters on their white canvas placards told the now familiar story: "On Strike Against the Chicago Tribune." But after 17 months, the printers seemed as far as ever from winning the strike against the Trib and Chicago's four other major dailies...
...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 were duller, staler and skimpier...
...news. Papers were turning more & more to roundups and canned features to make up for the news they skipped. The Trib's Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney thought it was not all loss. Said he: "We have told the background of the news better under strike conditions than [before]." And Daily News Managing Editor Everett Norlander detected another gain: "We've learned how to keep our copy short." Stories had to be chopped well down, because larger VariType faces take more space than linotype...
...Times City Editor Karin Walsh: "If we don't hit it in one edition, we'll get it in the next." Even bulletins were made possible only by the Graphotype,*a machine perfected by the Trib (and copied by its rivals) since the start of the strike. Two weeks ago, when a disastrous midnight fire gutted a southern Illinois hospital, the Trib had a Graphotype bulletin in its One-Star Final in a scant 15 minutes...
...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's outset to around 950,000 last week. Nobody knew just why. Best guess: now that there is little change in editions, many readers who had once bought an evening and a morning Trib are buying only one copy...