Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Humphrey, a druggist's son who learned his economics and his liberalism in South Dakota's dust bowl, pulled debilitated Democrats and Farmer-Laborites into the D.F.L. in 1944, Stassenite Republicans held all of Minnesota's top offices. The D.F.L. took a stand on a coalition platform of "sincere liberalism" that ranged (and still ranges) from high, rigid price supports for farmers to high unemployment insurance for labor, etc. Humphrey tramped the University of Minnesota, Rochester's Mayo Clinic, even high schools, recruited promising young liberals, put them to work in the tightly disciplined D.F.L...
There was another way of looking at the mess of bodies, tears and coal dust up in Springhill, Nova Scotia last week. The casket trade in the Maritime Provinces, which are economically depressed, rose sharply. The coffee-donut market was brisk as newspapermen arrived from the city. (There are no saloons in Nova Scotia.) The telephone company worked overtime to string up extra lines so the press could transmit its wirephoto of Canada living in the early 19th century. That picture was about the only good thing that ever came out of Springhill...
...basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. [We must] get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate...
...music, staffed by ten young men who threw down handfuls of Kennedy-Furcolo buttons and armloads of paper streamers. Just ahead of it walked a man inside a great box sign, inexplicably made up in a long beard, top hat, and dark glasses. The sign was stapled over with dust jackets of The Last Hurrah...
...same space-formed molecules must have sifted down on the moon, and some of them may be preserved in the lunar dust. In fact, the CETEX scientists think it is possible that some "pre-life" processes of molecule building may still be taking place on the moon...