Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the U.S., "from boardrooms to barrooms" Luckman had encountered it. The talkers were not measuring the U.S. economy, but "their own fever chart"-using a special kind of emotional arithmetic, adding two and two to get zero. Luckman preferred to add U.S. employment of 59 million (still close to its alltime high), savings of $200 billion and a purchasing power 53% higher than prewar. "Too many . . . have accepted the jabber-jitter estimates of what is wrong with America, instead of finding out . . . what is right...
...this country we have a special kind of head start, for we can usually depend on our American press-newspapers, radio, and magazines-to give us straight facts, to keep us fully informed, to help us understand. Now television, with programs like this one, can add a new dimension: true understanding of our own history and of our future...
...typically ambiguous statement, the Federal Communications Commission last week announced that it "proposed" to add 42 UHF (ultra high frequency) channels to the existing twelve television channels. No one would explain exactly what this mysterious announcement meant, but it looked important. It could mean that all TV sets in use today will be obsolete unless they can be converted to the UHF band. It could also mean that color television, which works only on UHF, is just around the corner. Even so, the FCC moves so slowly and cautiously that something it "proposes" to do might take years...
Although social life ordinarily is pretty dull in Luxembourg, there was nothing to stop Perle from throwing some of her big parties there (to entertain, she will have to add considerable of her own money to the $15,000 or $20,000 salary of a Minister). Since Mrs. Mesta is a widow, protocol officers were spared one problem: when it comes to table-setting, there is no place to put a Minister's husband...
Anaconda, largest of the two U.S. companies that together own 96% of Chile's mines, announced a 30% cutback, laid off 2,615 workers. Higher-cost Chilean-owned mines had already shut down or soon would. That would add several thousand more to the unemployment rolls. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the price drop brought cries from copper-state Congressmen for revival of the prewar tariff on U.S. copper imports. If it were reimposed, Chile would be shut from any big share of the U.S. market...