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...readers what the U.S. is really like. "It is horrifying," wrote Champion, who had set foot on U.S. shores for the first time just five days before, "to find everyone [in New York] suffering from war and atom phobia in their most advanced forms." Correspondent Champion found bombproof safe-deposit boxes "strictly for dollars ... no humans need apply," a Broadway "populated with sex-mad morons," and "one advertisement everywhere: Blood donors wanted. High cash payments given on the spot." (Champion admitted later that "everywhere" was actually only in small classified...
...because there were political difficulties in Venezuela.") Then Humphrey heard about a Canadian named Jules Timmins, who held the mineral rights to 24,000 square miles of land along the Labrador-Quebec border. Timmins had been looking for gold and all he was able to find was a fabulous deposit of iron...
...Deposit No Return (The Andrews Sisters; Decca). A solidly commercial attitude toward love in a cheerfully commercial clambake by the famous vocal trio...
...because he was afraid "we would get lost in the welter of half-hour shows," he decided to spend the millions on producing a go-minute show every week for 26 weeks. The series, as he laid it out, was to include everything that "might leave some deposit of enlightenment as well as entertainment," and so it got the catchall name Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m. E.S.T...
Furthermore, the economy has a great many built-in supports - mostly devised by the New Deal - to keep up buying power and cushion the severity of a slump. Government price supports keep the farmer's income relatively stable ; federal deposit insurance helps prevent any 1932-type bank panics. Strong unions keep a floor under wages; unemployment insurance tides the jobless over short layoffs. While only 15% of the U.S. labor force was covered by pension systems in the '30s, today 90% are covered, and private pension plans have grown from 720 in 1930 to 14,000, covering more...