Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark conspiracy contrived by eastern capital. They cited examples to show how they had been handicapped (a manufacturer in New York could ship the 852 miles into Louisville for less than an Atlanta manufacturer, only 449 miles away). Even Canadian shippers could reach the rich eastern markets, over equal distances, at a cheaper rate...
...postman who would like to be a lawyer. Baltimore-born Thurgood Marshall, counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, pleaded the case of Herman Marion Sweatt against the University of Texas (TIME, March 24). The case was now clearly not just another attempt to get "equal facilities" for Negroes, but a major legal assault on educational segregation. Both sides recognized it as the test for similar laws in 17 states...
...Crow district court last week Texas officials made a show of claiming that they had provided "equal facilities" for Negroes by setting up a "law school" (with a charter but no students) in an Austin basement. But the state concentrated on defending segregation as such. Texas Dean B.F. Pittenger argued: "The attitude of Texans being what it is, the effect of abandoning segregation . . . would set back public education in Texas." Rather than let children mingle with Negroes, he said, white parents would send them to private schools...
...Hooperatings on which radio bases all its calculations are nothing more than a number of answers to telephone calls, translated into percentages. In 36 cities*-spots where all four networks are in equal competition -Hooperaters go to work twice a month, calling random numbers from the telephone directory. The quizzers ask stock questions ("Are you listening to the radio? To what program? What station?"). The Hooperaters are mostly retired telephone operators ("the Bell system turns people into absolute automatons...
Hooper makes no attempt to judge a program's merit. The only thing radio men are panting to know is: "How many people listened?" The service makes no claim even to an answer on that. Each Hooper point does not necessarily equal a million listeners (e.g., 31,100,000 for Hope). Hooper says that that rule-of-thumb may be true, but as far as he is concerned, it is just a huckster's sales pitch...