Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of newsprint for one dizzy moment in 1921 was $130 a ton. About a third of the cost of publishing a newspaper is the cost of newsprint and publishers were pleased when it dwindled...
Many publishers in recent years have contracted for their newsprint on the condition that it was not to be above that asked by Great Northern. One-third of the newsprint used in the U. S. (3,700,000 tons last year) is made in the U. S.; almost one-third of the newsprint made in the U. S. is made by Great Northern. Great Northern's customers include Scripps-Howard, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Sun and some 200 smaller papers. To them Great Northern's president, handsome William Arthur Whitcomb, has not been tough...
...late eccentric Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who was such a slave-driver that his retinue of male secretaries called their floating home the Liberty, Ha Ha. The late Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan Viscount Tredegar, wealthy coal man, bought the yacht from Pulitzer, made it a navigating hospital. The third owner, the late Fanny Lucy Radmall Lady Houston, wife of the Houston shiplines director, hung a huge electric sign, DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR, in the rigging, sailed the English coast. Last week the old Liberty was sold for scrap, towed to Newport, Monmouthshire to be dismantled...
...editors of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, and their associates, who for twelve years have been working on separating U. S. English from English English (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936), were almost finished with the Bs last week. Issued by the University of Chicago Press was the third section of their dictionary, Blood and Thunder- Butterfly...
Concurrent with Dean Hanford's statement that almost one-third of the upperclass college is concentrating in the social sciences comes the publication of five volumes on the subject of a liberal education. In stinging words Iowa's Norman Forester claims that students neither go to college to be educated nor are they educated there. Following up this dogmatic assertion, he is convinced they go for a degree, which he calls "a passport to economic success," and to participate in activities. In general agreement are Presidents Wriston of Lawrence, Angell of Yale, and Butler of Columbia--who feel that...