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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ferrets & Dew. Soviet ferret raids have already felt out North America's defenses. U.S. jets on radar alert, scrambling from bases in Alaska and elsewhere, have repeatedly spotted distant Red reconnaissance planes. The Russians' mission: to try out the radar screen, draw out interceptors, chart and time defense reactions...
...examining the circulation losses and gains that U.S. newspapers have experienced in the past seven years, says Cowles, anyone can chart the decline of profitable newspaper sensationalism. Newspapers, says he, have realized that complete and fair news coverage builds circulation. With few exceptions, those newspapers that "have had the heaviest circulation losses are not papers that regard full and fair news presentation as their primary function and reason for existence . . . Because of the rapidly rising educational level of the American public and its steadily widening range of interests, those newspapers that were built largely on the formula...
...exchange, even commodity experts wondered just what coffee-men had done wrong. If FTC hoped to prove that coffee traders had rigged prices last winter by sale of far-futures contracts, i.e., contracts made between November 1952 and October 1953 for coffee to be delivered a year later (see chart), it had only to look at the figures to see that there was no correlation. If FTC hoped to prove that current far-future prices, i.e., on contracts sold between November 1953 and October 1954, are affected by current spot prices, it would find a widening gulf over the past...
...decision that restricted Alcoa's further expansion, Federal Judge Learned Hand tried to set up a percentage chart. Said he: "[Over 90% of the market] is enough to constitute a monopoly; it is doubtful whether 60% or 64% would be enough, and certainly, 33% is not." But many another judge and businessman have disagreed. The confusion over bigness and monopoly started in 1890 with the Sherman Act, the forerunner of all antitrust legislation. Although the act clearly stated that any person "who shall monopolize" is guilty of a crime, it failed to define monopoly. Thus every merger...
...seems to be the cause. But once the wave gets going, its front gets steeper and steeper and the air in the wave may rise more than a mile in a few minutes. This causes a sudden rise of barometric pressure that shows as a sharp jog on the chart of a specially sensitive barograph...