Word: wheelman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Hours. Irish-born S. S. McClure worked his way through Illinois' small Knox College as farmhand and peddler. Soon after graduation, he landed a job as editor of a new Boston cycling magazine, the Wheelman, then moved to the staff of the Century Magazine. McClure tried to convince his Century bosses that they should branch out, left when they vetoed his idea and launched the first successful U.S. newspaper syndicate himself. In 1893, on $2,800 in profits from the syndicate and a borrowed stake, McClure started his magazine. At its peak in 1906, Steffens, Tarbell, and Baker...