Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pointing out the need for "experience on a menial level," Day advised graduates in the field to seek employment on a small country newspaper. Journalists who begin as copy boys for city dailies, he added, "are doing it the hard...
...market dropped through the 1957 low set two days before. At week's end the market steadied, but the Dow-Jones average ended the day at 466, nearly 11 points off from the previous week. Wall Streeters began watching anxiously for a test of the 460 Dow-Jones level, where the market has met strong buying support three times in the last 13 months...
...junked.) Said Chicago Dealer Louis Izkovitz: "The drop looks drastic because prices had reached an all-time high. Actually, the market isn't a bad one at present in spite of the drop. Most of the people in the industry would be happy to have it level off at the present plateau...
Worthy spoke of the Chinese Street Committees, calling them "the key to the country's future." The Committees, which are practically unknown to the West, are the regime's major device for keeping in touch with the people and ruling them on a local level...
Reporting on the conditions in Communist China, the Nieman fellow said that "although there is a totalitarian regime with complete control on every level of society, there has been a vast improvement of economic conditions and, in the past year, a quiet liberalization movement reflecting an eased world situation...