Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union Pacific Railroad
Last month Baltimore sent policemen to every family in the city to learn exactly how many wage earners lacked employment (TIME, Feb. 20). Events justified their preoccupation. Last week the American Federation of Labor published its January table of unemployed union workers in 23 cities. Baltimore held first place with 42.5% unemployed. Of 23 cities Chicago was the only one where unemployment decreased. The table...
...family traded with Indians nearly a century ago. The conservative Chicago Daily News, household necessity for 440,000 people, had ordered for itself a new house of steel and Indiana limestone. It will rise 25 stories along the west bank of the Chicago River-a neighbor of the new Union Station. It will have a public plaza on which fountains will play and perhaps a few trees will grow. Under the plaza and one corner of the building will run the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. But railroad service will not be interrupted during...
...first paragraph is written in cablese. The second is a skeletonized cablegram. The third is the way such a story might finally appear in U. S. newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words...
Said J. H. Furay, vice president in charge of foreign news of the United Press: "The [Western Union] regulation is really not new. The United Press has not been using contractions for some time, and the experience has shown us that skillful filers are able to say in plain English, condensed and skeletonized, the same things without using 'cablese' and in the same number of less words...