Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though not many people outside the publishing business are aware of the connection, the Straight family,*which publishes the politically conscious New Republic (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948), also publishes the politically unconscious Antiques. An illustrated monthly,. Antiques is the biggest and most successful magazine in its field. In the depression years, when the leftish New-Republic prospered, the newly purchased Antiques lost money. Now Antiques makes money and the New Republic loses it. From a circulation high point of 96,441 in 1948 under Editor Henry Wallace, the N.R. has slumped to 37,000; the current issue carries only three...
...boom times and given millions added buying power for medical care. The wonder drugs have worked miracles. World War II, though it killed and maimed hundreds of thousands, gave millions of men & women better medical and dental care than they had ever had before, and made them health-conscious. Group insurance has enabled many families to go to the doctor oftener-and earlier, when it does the most good...
Refereeing the affair was one Cleary, who did his usual impartial and semi-conscious...
...Gains? The debate put Senators into a history-conscious mood. Massachusetts' able Republican Henry Cabot Lodge skillfully argued with Senators who were naturally concerned not only with the merits of the amendment but with what it would do to their own party's fortunes. In the 1948 campaign, Lodge pointed out, Harry Truman carried Ohio by only 7,107 votes, but walked off with all 25 electoral votes. Under the new system the electoral votes would have divided 12.4 to 12.3, with .3 to Henry Wallace's Progressive Party...
...writing to the East African government of the clampdown on dollar oil, Britain's Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones had added: "The Americans have, as expected, not gone beyond expressing regret" at the restrictions against dollar oil. That set things popping. Texas' oil-conscious Tom Connally, whose Foreign Relations Committee sits astride Britain's Marshall Plan aid, railed at this "British act of hostility to our economy." Connally bellowed for action...