Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earns two and one half percent--peanuts. Compare this with the monopolistic juicy profits of imperialism. Capital is American foreign oil enterprises earns 25 percent." He explained that Big Business makes profits to plough back so as to make bigger profits to plough back again--"this is the lifeblood, the circulation of capitalism." "Now, there's no place to plough it back. Capitalism has lost much," he said, "and it MUST reach out for what it has lost, or die. Revolution is the obstacle...
What most concerned TVmen (and those who supply their financial lifeblood) was another question: If television is about to be flooded with congressional probers and legislative debates, how will they be sponsored? More important, what will happen to the ratings of the commercial shows that try to compete with such compelling, real-life drama? So far, a Manhattan adman had the only answer: "If the Washington circus keeps going, competing shows will have to be taken off the air. It just doesn't pay to go on for an audience of about ten people...
Students throughout the nation are sore beset with doubts and fears; the grim spectre of compulsory service hangs heavy over their heads like the sword of Damocles. But we must remember that youth is the lifeblood of the nation. Still we cannot send a boy to do the man's job of stopping the savage hordes from the arid steppes. We must heed the clarion call of duty...
...print the news of business that is most significant, the news the editors think you should know about. It may be about beef cattle, movies, models, railroads, hotels, airlines, automakers, and scores of other dissimilar topics. It may be an old-fashioned success story-in many ways the lifeblood of a free-enterprising economy. Sometimes it is a story of business failure...