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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vegetables. The packinghouse workers' complaint was an old one. They were among the lowest-paid workers in any mass-production industry. They had had a total 35? boost since the war; they wanted 29? more. The packers had countered with an offer of 9? The C.I.O. union elected to fight...
Critic Brown admitted "that as a part of every healthy diet, everyone needs a certain amount of trash. . . . The comic books, however . . . [are] the lowest, most despicable, most harmful and unethical form of trash. . . As a people we must grow up. . . . We must put behind us that fear of the best and that passion for the mediocre which most Americans cultivate. Comics are the marijuana of the nursery . . . the bane of the bassinet...
Running over a day's output of the A.P., Dr. Flesch found that the stories were far below his standard. They varied from "fairly poor" to "poor" (his next to lowest grade). He cited one horrible example of a lead: "University of Washington scientists reported today experiments have shown that microplankton organisms act as radioactivity 'carriers' in Bikini waters, keeping the waters radioactive." How many readers, asked Dr. Flesch, know what "microplankton organisms" are? The same story was turned over to the A.P. science writer, Howard W. Blakeslee, to Flesch out. His version: "Discovery of the missing...
...bushel to $2.46½. Cash corn was down 49¾? to $2.13. In sympathetic spasms, almost every other commodity had tumbled with them. The stockmarket had steadied by week's end, but before it leveled off, the Dow-Jones industrial average had dropped 6.24 points to 168.81, lowest since June...
This week, the cap started coming off the biggest item in the average family's budget: food (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the livestock market, hog prices this week dropped $2 to $22.50 a hundredweight, lowest in a year. Consumers waited for cheaper pork. The sympathetic break in hides, fats and oils, and cotton suggested possible future reductions in the prices of shirts, shoes and soap...