Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people sterile. Children were kept indoors, and every stomachache was blamed on infiltering atoms. When kids at St. George (pop. 4,562) showed a trifling rash, Utah's health commissioner flew from Salt Lake City to investigate. The disease proved to be German measles, but St. George officials broadcast warnings for residents to stay off the streets. When apprehension was at its height, well-meaning AECmen stopped motorists on the lonely road between Las Vegas and St. George and suggested that they have their cars washed-just in case. The suggestion shook even horn-hard miners. When sheep died...
...document the Communists want them to, or appear on radio or TV programs and deliver any script the Reds hand them. Tell them they can confess that the United States poisoned Lenin and Stalin; they can call the President a capitalist, warmongering dog of Wall Street; they can broadcast peace appeals, agree to settle behind the Iron Curtain when the war is over, and sign long-term leases on houses in Moscow. Give the Reds anything they want for propaganda purposes and defy them to use it! This order would be transmitted to the United Nations with a blistering statement...
...reaction among the Nationalists was one of gloomy foreboding, frustration, resentment. Said a Taipei lawyer: "When are people going to realize that appeasement of the Communists does not pay?" A broadcasting official: "I feel numb when I think of what is happening." A merchant in Hong Kong: "I just can't wait to see the day America will be 'liberated' by the Communists. They haven't been hit hard enough to see what's coming for everybody." Formosa's new troubles lent added weight to a psychological campaign which the Reds have been waging...
...stock was Pantepec Oil Co., a small company listed on the American Stock Exchange. In his Jan. 9 broadcast Winchell had a "piece of big advance news" that Pantepec had discovered "substantial oil reserves in the El Roble fields in Venezuela," and would hand out a stock dividend...
...printed a note about it without affecting the market notably. But the week before Winchell's tip, heavy buying, reportedly in Florida, pushed Pantepec's stock volume from 32.000 shares to 174,800, boosted prices from 5½ to 6¾. The Monday following Winchell's broadcast Pantepec sold an alltime record 357,500 shares, at 8⅞, up more than two points. Soon after, Pantepec started dropping, to 7½ at week's end. The paper loss to investors on Winchell's tip was an estimated $500,000, plus another $100,000 in commissions...