Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder championed the view that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, he has been challenged to produce the substances in tobacco smoke (or tar) that do the damage. Last week the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Atlantic City, took Wynder's word for it that he has now run the number of tobacco-tar fractions capable of causing cancer up to eight, with the end not yet in sight...
...shine on the 103-year-old daily. As publisher he installed Richard H. Amberg, who boosted local coverage, gave big play to public-service projects. In the process, Amberg shuffled some job assignments, replaced few staffers who left the paper. These changes convinced the St. Louis unit of the American Newspaper Guild that the Newhouse management was going in for a wholesale head-lopping. Last February, deeply suspicious of Newhouse, 332 members stalked off their jobs...
...gains to get back the Globe-Democrat. Said the public-service-minded Post-Dispatch in an unusual editorial: "There is a public interest in the publication of two separate, independent newspapers in this community. We believe the public interest calls for an early settlement. In all too many American cities, newspaper competition has disappeared. The Post-Dispatch does not want to see that happen here...
...magazine had demanded, "Let's Make 'Em Cook Raw Garbage" (to kill the vesicular exanthema virus that can infect hogs), 28 states enacted appropriate laws. Currently, Editor Streeter is busily engaged in a crusade in which the stakes are no less than the future of the American farmer, afflicted as he is by a self-defeating Government program that this fiscal year is costing the U.S. taxpayer a scandalous $5.4 billion. Stabbing out articles with two fingers on his typewriter, Streeter calls for a gradual reduction of the Government's subsidy program, an increase in vigorous, quality...
...increase in car-loadings and higher rail earnings, the Dow-Jones railroads climbed to a new 1959 high of 168.92, up 5.81 for the week, and highest since 1956. What encouraged Wall Street about the advance was that the market leadership came from such old-line blue chips as American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines, which topped 600 before sliding back at week's end. Behind the market advance was a growing realization by investors that 1959 will be a far better year than most had expected. The boom is already being reflected in earnings (see below...