Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that henceforth it will issue regular licenses permitting short-wavers to broadcast sponsored programs. Instead of cheering, the big short-wavers grumbled as they inspected the gift horse's mouth. Reason: they fear that sponsored programs would be unpopular abroad, that their friend the State Department would then sponsor a Government radio station, that a Government station might soon become a rival at home as well as abroad...
...fear they want to Yale. --Des Moines Tribuse...
Immediate reason for Harry Sinclair's pronunciamento was a small loss on Consolidated's operations in the first quarter (figures not made public). Since last year when the Government convicted a batch of the major oil companies under the Sherman Act, fear of further anti-trust suits has kept oilmen from attempting to do anything about relieving the market of distress gasoline stocks, which have reached an unwieldy total. Refiners now get an average of .7 cents a gallon less than they did last year. Crude production, however, has been kept within reasonable bounds by State proration laws...
Strange indeed was such unanimity among writers, stranger still P. E. N.'s sudden plunge into politics. Startled observers asked themselves: Are P. E. N. writers ahead of their readers or are they just catching up with the world's fear that civilization is doomed? Do they really mean to fight the forces threatening it? Answers to the second question were not long in coming...
Some 75% of U. S. citizens, through poverty, fear or ignorance, have never felt the pang of a dentist's drill. In large cities, crowded WPA clinics work overtime, but contribute only a drop in the bucket. In spite of numerous free school clinics, over 95% of U. S. school children are seriously in need of dental care. With these facts in mind, 3,400 members of the Dental Society of the State of New York, largest dental group in the country, met with 4,500 other dentists in Manhattan last week for the prime purpose of discussing Senator...