Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until Haldeman-Julius re-christened it A Prostitute's Sacrifice (it jumped to about 55,000 a year).* The bestselling Blue Books are those on sex, psychoanalysis and self-improvement; Haldeman-Julius has them written to order by eight staffers scattered around the world. One of these, William J. Fielding, who works for Manhattan's swank Tiffany jewelers, wrote the alltime bestseller: What Married Women Should Know (493,000 copies...
...This week the society announced that two more suits would be filed, boosting the grand total in damages sought to $2,900,000. If they collect, the plaintiffs said they would use the money to make a movie depicting the medical advances achieved through vivisection. Said famed Physiologist Anton J. Carlson, president of the society: "Medical science . . . refuses to be the goat any longer for the ugliest and most baseless vilification campaign of our times...
...J. Milton Stanford, a practicing Pantheist,* was first elected to the town council of Brentwood, Md. two years ago. He was sworn in with an oath of office, customary in Brentwood, which contained the phrase "I believe in God." He made no objection at the time but, after thinking it over later on, decided he could not again honestly swear to the statement...
Writing in the current Scientific Monthly, Drs. C. H. Hoffmann of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and J P Linuska of the Fish & Wildlife Service deftly spray this "childlike faith in what nature will provide" with mental DDT. Their conclusion is that the real DDT if used with reasonable care, need have no ill effects on desirable wildlife...
While the Manhattan hearings held the spotlight, the Administration itself struck an oblique blow for a fourth round of wage raises. Under the Walsh-Healey Act it has the power to set minimum wages on Government contracts of $10,000 and up. Last week Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin used this power to boost the minimum rates in steel from 62½? an hour to $1.23 in the North, from 45? an hour to $1.08½ in the South.* Tobin cheerfully conceded that this would "have the tendency to raise wages in general...