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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberal Salesmanship. With an eye to the general election due in the next year, the Liberals decided to appoint a party organizer, as well as public relations and press liaison officers. Need for a better job of selling the Liberal Party to the people was clearly indicated by the past year's record: except for the New Brunswick Liberal victory (won largely in an anti-Ottawa campaign), they have lost every major election test...
...hold the cost of living down, -the government has subsidized milk, meat and wheat. Milk, for which the producers get 8? a quart, is sold to the public for 9?. Rents have been under strict control but are shortly due for some increase. Wages have also been held even; the government has set aside several wage increases proposed by labor-management boards...
Going Up. Consumer credit reached a record of $14,149,000,000 in June, the Federal Reserve Board reported. Two-thirds of the rise was due to installment buying; the rest was charge accounts...
...baffling epidemic in Dundee was reported in the same issue of the Lancet. Women were turning up at doctors' offices suffering from bullous erythema (reddish blisters) on their legs. The doctors wondered: Was it due to chemical burns? To a new skin disease? Dr. John Kinnear, of the Dundee Royal Infirmary, discovered and pondered the fact that all the women had been riding the same tram line. Dr. Kinnear inspected and confirmed a suspicion: bedbugs...
...London on his aerial travels, Colonel Robert R. McCormick did some backtracking: "The feeling built up against me is due to your English newspapers, which print more propaganda than news ... I don't hate the British. Why should...