Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just behind Fischer in the new police setup was the minister of the interior of Brandenburg Province, Bernhard Bechler. Still in his 40's (and a former major in the Nazi Eighth army at Stalingrad), Bechler was as yet little known outside Berlin; but Berliners had begun to call him "the new Himmler." Talking with fellow Communists, Bechler was succinct. Said he recently: "We have until 1950, at the latest, to liquidate the bourgeois parties. By that time, the state police will be trebled and so well trained that, with the help of them and of the armed action...
...move that set the magazine industry buzzing, the Journal-impelled by a dip in circulation-cut its ad rates 5%. It offered advertisers rebates on several 1948 issues that had not delivered all the circulation expected. It was the first cut by a major magazine since the depression. Though Curtis magazines base their rates on the estimated circulation for six months ahead but do not guarantee the estimate, the Journal felt a "moral obligation" to cancel most of the 7½% rate increase that had helped make its October issue so rich (TIME...
Thus Look bragged that it "delivers reader traffic from cover to cover ... in every income group"; the Journal that "more women buy the Journal issue after issue." TIME advertised itself as "the one major weekly whose circulation has doubled since the beginning of World War II." But none matched one magazine's proud boast that "our readers have more inside toilets than most people...
...last 90 days, NBC has more than doubled its TV network sponsors. ¶ Sports have dropped, in the last year, from 53% to only 27% of the schedule on three of New York's major stations. Big-league baseball, once thought to be TV's top draw, now rates a poor second to variety shows competing at the same hour. ¶ Films are being used more & more, but lookers seem to like them less & less. Films now rank after variety, sport and audience-participation shows. But movies may eventually prove a hit if they are made especially...
...Cliffe also has a big share in the campaign, Fialkow has revealed, adding that "For the first time Radcliffe is a major part of our canvassing grounds this year...