Word: tli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...response to this prophetic warning, TLI struck the name from its list and began its own investigation of the hazards of sending further copies to its Czechoslovakian subscribers. Meanwhile, the Communists brought off their coup and, as you may have read in your newspapers, promptly banned TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications on grounds of "malicious reporting...
Shortly thereafter, these banned publications were more or less reinstated, pending permanent decisions as to their future. TLI, which has been through this sort of thing before, knows, however, that its future in Czechoslovakia is almost zero. Its first move, after satisfying itself that further receipt of our publications would be highly compromising, politically, to subscribers there, was to hold up individual subscriptions, including President Eduard Benes' weekly copy of TIME...
...fortnight later Snedaker was deep in the kind of trouble that he-and TLI-have grown used to. This time it was that ancient ravager, cholera. Egypt's efficient efforts to control the epidemic produced a web of anti-cholera regulations which extended to nearby countries. Snedaker felt their effect when the plane carrying the films from which TIME is printed was ordered to avoid Egypt. Substitute films, rushed from the U.S. via London, arrived just two days before issue date...
...maintain its distribution of TIME overseas, TLI has to deal with 85 different political entities, each with its own currency and currency problems. So far, TLI has had to establish 24 basic subscription prices in local currencies and 60 different newsstand rates. In several countries yearly subscription prices must equal or exceed the total of 52 newsstand copies. In Norway, all subscriptions must be entered through agents; in Finland, through the post office. In New Zealand, no new subscriptions at all may be solicited. In China, because of currency fluctuations, newsstand prices are subject to change weekly...
...from France than it exported, ran out of francs and TIME could no longer clear its Italian lira remittances. At that juncture the Government, expressing its desire to continue having TIME & LIFE in Italy, agreed to permit imports of TIME with payments in lira to be used for maintaining TLI's editorial bureau in Rome. As a result, our present print order of TIME for Italy is determined by the amount of our expense of doing business there...