Word: pressroom
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...Baltimore, Sun Police Reporter Pierce Hunter phoned a newsy item to his city desk: firemen were on their way to put out a blaze in the Sun's pressroom...
...A.F.L. pressmen's union, had sent a telegram to his St. Louis local, ordering it to drop its plan for a slowdown strike. When the pressmen discovered a story about Boss Berry's decision in the afternoon Post-Dispatch and Star-Times they pulled the pressroom switches and walked out, right in the middle of the press run. After a five-hour walkout, union leaders, aware of the evil implications of such press censorship, talked the pressmen into going back-but too late for the rest of that day's newspapers to get out on the streets...
...high-ceilinged lobby of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, where the American Psychiatric Association was holding its annual meeting, flew a fat pigeon. Two days and many conferences later, pointedly ignored by hotel guests, the bird still perched or flapped over the potted palms and the crowded sofas. A pressroom aide explained: "Everyone was afraid to mention the pigeon in the lobby, with all these psychiatrists around...
...pressroom the tourists saw big banners, bearing such slogans as "The Socialist obligation of the five-year plan is to do the best you can." One was more curt: "Get the paper out on time...
...other foreigners did. His China Weekly Review became a highly respected journal of news and opinion. Long before it became the fashion, the militant little paper took sides against the invading Japanese. When they tried to silence him with bribes and threats, Powell sneered at them and lined his pressroom doors with steel. The day after Pearl Harbor, the Japs shut up his shop, and later clapped Editor Powell into filthy, ice-cold Bridgehouse Prison. Before he got out, starvation had cut his weight in half, and gangrene had turned his feet into shapeless lumps...