Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago, when he first got his Young People's Records, Inc. started, he asked questions in schools, children's centers, and in his own home (three children), to get an idea of what children want to hear. From three-year-olds he got reactions such as "I like my horsy record -I put it on the victrola . . . take my bicycle and ride through the dining room, galloping, galloping ..." So Grenell put out plenty of that (The Little Fireman, The Circus Comes to Town...
...detrimental forces is made, utilizing supernatural and natural resources, can one hope for the eradication of this scourge of childhood."* Citing his study of the case histories of 266 Iowa rheumatic children, Dr. Jackson offers some advice to other doctors with rheumatic fever cases: check the patient's home life. Then, "when it is found inadequate, as it most frequently is, the work of raising the level of the environment should be started immediately...
Such "catastrophic" explanations of the solar system made fair sense scientifically, and got grateful support from nonscientific people who preferred to believe that man and his earthly home are unique n the universe. Collisions or near-collisions between stars must be excessively rare. If it takes such a cosmic catastrophe ;o produce a planetary system, there is a good chance that man's earth may be the only chunk of matter with proper conditions for life to develop...
...backward nations, New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram spotted a big flaw in the idea. Point Four would wrap a protective government guarantee around private funds invested outside the U.S. What irked Schram was that there was no program for improving "the shabby treatment of capital at home...
...would like nothing better than to [find] on the New York Stock Exchange [securities] of waterworks in South America, electric light and power companies in the Middle East. [But] how can we expect [others] to amend their [restrictive] laws toward American capital, knowing that investment and investors at home are discriminated against and discouraged...