Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lammot, presided over the company's expansion during and after World War I from munitions manufacturing into paints, plastics, rayon and cellophane, plus a 23% stock interest in General Motors, worth some $3 billion when federal trustbusters finally forced divestiture last year; after a long illness; in Wilmington...
...CAPPOS Wilmington...
Smyth moved to Delaware, bought up Dover's weekly newspaper and converted it to a daily. He watched sorrowfully as circulation fell overnight from 4,200 to 2,000; Doverites seemed quite content with the two Du Pont-owned papers published in nearby Wilmington, the Journal and the News. There were also other growing pains. The International Typographical Union tried to organize Smyth's pitifully small stable of printers. But Smyth put his back up, imported substitutes from as far off as Texas, and after two years the I.T.U. furled its last picket sign and slunk away...
...there is more to it than that. The State News covered the state legislature with such thoroughness that the Wilmington papers' one-man Dover bureau hollered for reinforcements-and got them. Smyth's men scored a clean beat over the Wilmington dailies with a story about a state welfare department scandal-in Wilmington. During the severe Atlantic Coast storm that wrecked Delaware for two March days in 1962, State News coverage was far superior to that of the Wilmington papers...
...labyrinthine ways, including his three arrests for drunkenness-all of them reported in the State News. Today the State News is a Dover institution, like the girdle factory. It has a circulation of 13,112, and has shaved some 5,000 off the circulation of the competitive Wilmington Journal in what Jack Smyth now regards as part of his own backyard...