In Birmingham, Ala., where the city's three daily newspapers have been closed for three weeks by a printers' strike, people began to worry in earnest. One by one the striking printers were taking jobs elsewhere; by week's end 45 of them had drawn traveler's cards from the union and left town.
Meanwhile the radio, helped out by the pooled reporters of the morning Age-Herald, the evening News and Post, did its best to keep people informed. Station WAPI set up an I.N.S. news ticker in a window of Blach's department store, divided two windows into sections marked Local News, State News, National...
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