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At first TIME was printed in New York and reached New York subscribers four or five days earlier than it reached subscribers on the West Coast. In 1927 we switched our printing to Chicago in the hope of getting simultaneous delivery all over the country. But the first Chicago set-up was very different from our present operation (we now have teletypesetters in New York setting type simultaneously in Chicago and Philadelphia). In those days we could not even afford to telegraph our stories to Chicago—so when we closed the issue we just put all the copy into an envelope and mailed it, hoping that thereafter everything would be all right. Of course the inevitable day came — a Monday afternoon when Chicago telephoned to ask blandly where was the copy? Four or five days later it turned up in Omaha—just why nobody could explain.
That week there came very near being no issue of TIME at all.
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