Newspaper Collector Samuel I. Newhouse knows how to make trouble work for him. In November 1959, the printing-trades unions struck the two daily newspapers in Portland, Ore. They objected to Newhouse's plan to install automatic plate-casting equipment on Portland's biggest and strongest paper, the morning Oregonian (circ. 207,837). And they also struck the afternoon Oregon Journal. For the first 160 days of the strike, the two papers published joint editions; since then have been appearing regularly on their own, though the strike has been going on for 21 months. The Journal has been...
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