Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Department of Justice filed a civil suit against the Lorain Journal and the Horvitz brothers for conspiracy to monopolize the dissemination of news, advertising and other information. It was the first antitrust action charging a newspaper with seeking to injure a competing radio station. Besides refusing ads, the Journal was accused of trying to persuade employees of WEOL to quit, and of making a deal with an Elyria paper not to circulate or solicit ads in Lorain...
...Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). A radio first: Vladimir Dukelsky's Ode to the Milky...
...scientist is inclined to minimize the Russian scientific achievement. It is possible that the Russians have built by persistence and enormous effort a single rather poor bomb. But they have world-renowned physicists, such as Peter Kapitza, and probably many other first-rate men. So it is also quite possible that they have large, fairly efficient plants capable of producing many excellent bombs...
Since that first year of the Atomic Age, methods of observing such effects have improved enormously. U.S. airplanes, patrolling the perimeter of the U.S.S.R., were equipped to collect enough radioactive dust in air filters or electrostatic precipitators to prove that an atomic cloud had risen somewhere in the interior. Ground observers in some such place as Alaska could have spotted the cloud's radioactivity by means of instruments...
...Argyle socks 22%, cashmere sweaters 20%, and most other goods accordingly. In two days, it booked $1,250,000 worth of orders. Austin Motors Co. Ltd., which had slashed its prices from 11 to 15%, sold out its entire U.S. stock of 1,000 cars in the first two days after devaluation, promptly ordered 500 more. But such price cuts seemed likely to last only in those British goods, such as autos, which the British were finding hard to sell...