Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Yank is full grown it will be published in New York, London Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, and Cairo. Already it is printed in the first three of these places. The main offices will remain in New York City where they now are, and mats of the pages will be flown especially to the chain branches. There the weekly will be run off by civilian letter press and distributed easily to the armed forces overseas as soon as the men at home receive...
This chain network it a creation entirely new to journalism, and is made possible only by the size, dispersion, and uniformity of Yank's audience. (Yank's circulation figures are one of those non-military military secrets...
...vitals of this octopus exist on the fourth floor of a New York office building across the street from the white skyscraper of the New York Daily News. In large, airy quarters the home staff conceives, organizes, lays out, and creates each edition of Yank...
Supervising the work and discipline are a handful of officers with Lt. Col. Franklin S. Forsberg as Officer in Charge. Major Hartzell Spence, former United Press executive, holds the official title of editor and bears the responsibility for Yank's printed word. But discipline is no problem for the men are given a daily $2.75 maintainance allowance and plenty of liberty; no man is added to the staff without the approval of the enlisted...
Actual Number One man who makes the final decisions is tall, serious Technical Sergeant Joe McCarthy, the managing editor. Just 28 last Saturday, Sgt. McCarthy is characteristic of Yank's staff, probably the youngest, and lowest paid, board in journalism...