Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, whose four international editions are now available almost anywhere in the world (except Soviet Russia, her satellites, and some other inaccessible places) on or before issue date, is, as you know, a journal of U.S. and world affairs written from the American viewpoint. Recently, Hans Bronkhorst, a Dutch journalist, set down his view of TIME for readers of The Netherlands weekly, De Linie. The following excerpts from it may interest...
...Heir for Heritage. There were the usual disasters in the air. Ducks, gulls, buzzards, and even whistling swans, reported the Wall Street Journal, were colliding with man-made airplanes at the rate of nine a week. Other birds, after being electrocuted and tied in sacks, were being hurled at speeds up to 500 m.p.h. at the windshields of stationary airplanes by scientists of the Civilian Aeronautics Administration...
...session had produced a lot of talk, but so little legislation that the Ottawa Journal complained editorially: "Not Much to Show for Six Months' Work." Among the items put off to the next session: revision of the Income Tax Act; the federal labor code; revision of the Dominion Elections...
Happiness is now within the reach of everyone-everyone, that is, who wants to be a dope. In the British Medical Journal, a distinguished British psychiatrist named G. Tayleur Stockings announced that one capsule of pyrahexyl, a synthetic marijuana-like drug, taken each morning, would make the saddest sack happy...
...British Journal of Mental Science, Pai reports that he has found writer's cramp surprisingly widespread in Britain.* He examined 1,880 psychoneurotic British soldiers and found that 171 had writer's cramp. Only six, all clerks, had done a good deal of writing. Most of the patients developed their symptoms upon being assigned to uncongenial jobs that required some writing...