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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally, officially all in and counted, to the last lorn vote. Swamped, and thoroughly swamped, were the minor parties. Of the record total of 49,818,095 votes cast, 27,245,422 went to Roosevelt. 22,323,801 to Willkie. Norman Thomas' Socialist vote (116,796) was the lowest since 1900, when a Socialist candidate (Eugene Debs) first appeared on the ballot. Communist Earl Browder, barred from some State ballots, got only 49,028, ran behind Prohibitionist Roger Babson, who polled 58,674. Total for all minor-party candidates: 239,772, their worst showing since 1876. Scattered votes were...
Last week, as it has been for nearly three months, the U. S. price of copper was stable at around 12? a pound. It was the lowest level at which U. S. copper producers have ever been sold out. Reason for their moderation at the banquet table is one of the major phenomena of U. S. national unity-a shotgun wedding between the Defense Commission and big-time coppermen. Cooperating with Commissioners Henderson (prices) and Stettinius (materials), coppermen had accepted the New Deal program on prices-i.e., kept them down. But the remarkable extent of their cooperation became evident...
Last week two New York Stock Exchange seats were sold by disgusted broker-owners for $33,000 each, lowest price since 1899. Even in 1933, Wall Streeters paid up to $250,000 for seats. But by last week, the 26th of U. S. industry's post-Flanders upward trend, it looked as though Wall Street was one place in the U. S. where the defense program was definitely depressing...
...Holy War. Sapphira herself manages the household from her wheel chair (she has dropsy), yearns for the good life in Winchester. Mainly the story is of her more & more elaborate persecution of the young mulatto Nancy, whom she wrongly suspects of bedding with her husband. At her lowest she invites her rakehell nephew Martin for a visit, assigns him Nancy as his personal servant. Colbert and his daughter help Nancy escape, unscathed, into Canada. In an old-fashioned epilogue Willa Cather, aged five, sees Nancy's return as a middle-aged woman...
...Although the city spends only 76? a year on the health of each citizen, New York has a good health record. In 1939, out of a population of 7,500,000, deaths totaled 75,439, second lowest rate for the city ever recorded (lowest: 1938). There were large decreases in maternal and infant mortality; in deaths from scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, pneumonia, meningitis, measles...