Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Bernard Shaw told an interviewer for a spiritualist journal, "belief in individual survival is horror. To realize that, think not of your own individual survival but of mine. . . . Could you bear it?" He used to go to seances, said Shaw, but he never gets invited any more. He always cheated at them, he explained...
Highest Climb. But this sound & fury signified nothing in the way of price cuts. The magazine Mill & Factory polled businessmen, found that 44% thought prices were too high. But only 15% expected to reduce them by summer. In a nationwide survey, The Wall Street Journal found that virtually no one is going to reduce them now. Profits in many industries were so fat, despite slackening sales, that few were being scared into price cutting...
McCarthy gets along well with "the invaders from the North," many of whom are among his best customers. Most Texans are learning to do the same, with the same view of self-development and profit. As Carl Estes, publisher of the Longview News and Journal put it: "I'm in favor of bringing those know-how Yankees right on down here. I married one and brought her here and she turned out all right...
...Commission failed to name names, except in obvious or innocuous cases of the misuse of freedom. He would note many a contradiction (e.g., in its preoccupation with the evils of monopoly, the Commission overlooked such cities as Boston, where eight competing papers give poorer fare than Louisville, whose Courier-Journal and Times are a monopoly...
...rescue Lynch from boredom and make it pay. Slim had never written much of anything, but he knew everybody in town, and knew how to spin a yarn. Stone set him to writing a Tuesday-through-Friday local column. It turned out to be a wise and whimsical journal about the odd corners of Seattle life, with tales of seamy Skidroad characters, the scavengers on the city dumps and such old Seattle landmarks as the once-grand Globe Hotel. Seattle took the new columnist to its heart. His prizewinning column was typical: a half-bitter, half-sentimental piece about Memorial...