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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President did not try to bolster the "great danger" warnings in the Steelman report. Among them: zooming living costs (see chart) and the resulting cut in real wages to the lowest point since early in the war; a drop of 8.5% in take-home pay since April 1945; inflationary pressures which could lead to "price collapse" and depression...
...throw in the sponge. Few U.S. Presidents have ever been jeered at the way Harry Truman was jeered at last week. New Dealing Columnist Samuel Grafton mocked: "Poor Mr. Truman . . . an object for pity." The New Dealing Chicago Sun ran a merciless cartoon in clay (see cut). The lowest blow came from that low-blow expert, the Chicago Tribune. Squinting at the President, the Tribune pretended to see Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd. Sample dialogue...
...suites except the lowest priced ones consist of two rooms and a private bath, with only those renting under $45 sharing a bathroom. The only $80 suite has larger rooms and has been furnished by a private, party...
Cautious Eastern Air Lines, long the lowest-cost operator of the lot, made the best showing. Eastern's net revenue did not fall off as sharply as the net revenues of lines which were expanding more rapidly. On Jan.1, 1946, U.S. domestic airlines owned 414 planes. By August, they had 597. But Eastern took delivery on only 14 planes (it has more on order), hired fewer people proportionately than other lines...
...Indifferent Lot. Boston is top-heavy with newspapers. It has eight, and only New York City with nine dailies has more. Among the eight, the Herald stands second lowest in circulation (144,000), owes its prosperity to advertisers' knowledge that it is read by the people with the most money. With the exception of the excellent Boston-published Christian Science Monitor, which is more a national than a local paper, the Herald is probably the best of a lot of indifferent, purely local Boston sheets. Its competition: the reactionary Post, the sometimes timidly liberal morning and evening Globe...