Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago a tall, bald, shambling magazine editor, Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, got a yen to enter that select company. What he had in mind was a new kind of paper: an evening picture-paper with not so big a page as present tabloids, with news digested and departmentalized somewhat as in TIME. Selling such a paper at 5? a copy, Editor Ingersoll figured he could break even with a circulation of 190,000, but it would cost $1,500,000 to launch his daily...