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...such a walkout by the linotype operators would have paralyzed the papers. But last week most of the strikebound dailies were on the stands, thanks to a new technique in printing and, chiefly, to its sponsor, Manhattan's small (total assets: $800,000) Ralph C. Coxhead Corp. Its Vari-Typer machines, glorified typewriters which automatically set straight right-hand margins, were being used by most of the strikebound papers to by-pass the linotypers. The biggest fault that readers found with the papers was that they looked like a stenographer's work...
This week Coxhead Corp. was ready to get rid of the typewritten look. It had a new model machine whose type was almost indistinguishable to the layman from ordinary newspaper print. Unlike the old Vari-Typers, which can print in Arabic and 50 other foreign languages, the new machine has only five type faces, as yet, but they are specifically designed for newspaper printing...
Into the Newspapers. In 1946 the big break came. The Bayonne Times, a small New Jersey newspaper, used Vari-Typers when its linotype men walked out. The strike lasted only one day, but it was long enough to start the orders rolling in from other newspapers. Last year Coxhead sold about 3,500 Vari-Typers (priced from $308 to $910) for some $3,000,000. This year he hopes to move his 225 workers into a new factory, double his output...
What Griffin found out filled 24 Vari-Typed columns as the Trib's first "expose" of the year. The Ivy League, wrote Griffin, was "infested with pedagogic termites. . . . Harvard makes almost a fetish of permitting radicalism to flourish, and a visitor is impressed by the prevailing spirit that 'revolution is wonderful...
...larger type. Let this machine be developed a little more, and the cost of starting a newspaper will be very little. Instead of $50,000 or $100,000 for linotype machines to start a smalltown paper, I'll bet you could start one for $10,000 with Vari-Type. And you could put out a damned good-looking paper." But it would not look so good to the I.T.U. This week, with 15 dailies struck in eight cities, the National Labor Relations Board was reported ready to ask the courts to ban I.T.U. strikes...