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...fiction was notably unpopular during the years between 1895 and 1911. Only with the publication of Wells's Outline in 1921 did factual books of general or topical interest begin to rival romance and adventure. But topicality, whether in fact or fiction, has proved no more certain an index to popularity than literary merit. With its sensational expose of the "meat trust" in 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best-seller list...
...crackdown on those responsible. Censorship withheld the news from distribution abroad. The alleged "fortunes" made by "insiders" were enormous only in terms of inflated currency. The 45 billion Chinese dollars pocketed by one group amounted to 45 thousand Chinese dollars in terms of prewar purchasing power. (The retail-price index has risen to 1,250 times what...
Since the New Year, China's general price index had more than doubled. It stood approximately at 1,400 times the prewar level. In plain people's terms, one egg now cost 30 Chinese dollars, one pound of chicken $400, one man's suit (foreign style...
Canada has been second to no nation in the fight against wartime inflation. Burly Donald Gordon made it official in Parliament last week, when he reported that his vigilant Prices Board had actually knocked down the Canadian cost-of-living index last year by .8. For the whole war period. Dominion determination had held living-cost increases to 18%. (The U.S. index rose 30% during the same period...
Expressing confidence in the effectiveness of the anti-discrimination bills pending in many state legislatures and already passed in New York State, President Johnson termed them "a very valuable index of growing insight on the part of American minority groups...