Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1950 — Page 21
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he Times this week completed expansion of building and equipment that approximately doubled both plant size and production capacity. , Cost of the project, under way for the past 14 “months, Was in excess of $1,150,000. Addition of 28,000 square feet of working floor space to the 24,000 square feet previously in use in the building - at 214 W. MarylandSt;—makes available 52,000 square feet within the.new plant. New machinery and equipment have been added to every department, and enlarged business, accounting, advertising, cirtulation and editorial department quarters were included.
- 2.8 r CONSTRUCTION added a new, third floor to the two-story-and-basement structure The Times has used , since 1923, and a three-story-and-basement addition 75 by 67 feet in dimension was added to the rear of the building. Seven additional press units have been added to the eight which formerly producad Times editions. The 15-unit press battery now undergoing trial runs occupies the entire basement. Growing circulation, plus addition of a Sunday edition more than a year ago, had taxed previous press capacity almost to its limit, The new presses can produce approximately twice as many newspapers per hour and can print in a single operation an 80-page edition. The previous limit was 64 pages, The first floor houses business and financial, . adver. tising and circulation departments, the last including a mailing wi 1
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These hungry new presses can gobble up twice as many rolls of newsprint as were used before.
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8 Pp automatic conveyors and bundled for distribution. Sunday aw zine and comic sections also are inserted here and prepared for delivery. : . Ew ing itself presented. some. .ma-~ THE SECOND FLOOR is Jor problems. occupied by the. editorial de-
» ” partment, in remodeled quar- They were solved by care-
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ters more than twice the size of those formerly in use, plus rooms for United Press and other news wire services received by The Times. Back of this = department the composing room, where type is set and pages are assembled, also
has been -eiilarged, and new
typesetting machinery and “other equipment Installed.” Stereotype department do-
cupies the rest of’ this floor, .
Also. in greatl
installed a new. S-ton meta casting pot “and “other new equipment. .=-FRe_ New engraving plant, one of the most modern in the country, is on the third floor.
» - ” HERE, ALSO, are the new photographic laboratories, with streamiined darkrooms and printing rooms in which nine photographers can work -simultaneously. Telephoto
equipment, by which news =pictures—come—to—The Times
by wire: and radio from all parts of the ‘world—and are ~sent from The Times for publication elsewhere——also has been installed in this department. This floor also includes the telephone switchboards _which_serve th “ing and some storage.
» ~ ~ SINCE THE building had to be used continuously, producing newspapers seven days a week throughout, the build-
tre _buid-.
ful scheduling of each portion of the . job, by . shifting and crowding departments, often for weeks at a
time ‘while essential changes
were made. For a period of ‘months Times staff members reached their desks on the second floor by way of =a temporary wooden stairway
“putit outside “the building.
~ ” . IN SPITE of major diffit a single. editiol i LB. < " Fn abit of thin a few minutes during the” entire” 14-months operation.
The: Times; founded on-= Mar, 12, 1889, marked its 61st anniversary as the new building neared completion. Twenty-two years ago The Times received the Pulitzer award for “the most distinguished service” of that year to its community, the most coveted prize available to American newspapers. Many
—lesser awards and recogni-
tions have been added to that prized trophy. William Ginsberg . Associates, New York, leading newspaper building -architects, designed the new bulilding and supervised its construction. Carl M. Geupel
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lis, was the. general contractor, ' aided by Hatfield Electric Co. (wiring) and Charles W. "Btolte (plumb-
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