Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nation's Heritage...
TIME'S Sept. 6 press story on Nation's Heritage . . . states that "Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal." Absolutely untrue. Heritage will be one of publishing flossier flops if it cannot achieve its vitally important purpose-"to convey in a dramatic, graphic way a greater knowledge of all the things that have made and make our nation; to give a picture of the heritage that belongs to all Americans in a manner that will have an appeal to most Americans-through the medium of pictures, art and color...
Even in good times, more than 500 of the nation's banks used to go bust every year. Since FDIC started insuring, only 404 banks have been forced to close, and less than one-eighth of 1% of their deposits were lost. In the last five years not one FDIC-insured bank has closed, and not one depositor has lost a cent...
...Kansas City manufacturer ships his product to New York for export, the railroads grant him a special low export rate. During the war the nation's biggest export shipper was the Government; but its shipments never carried their foreign destination, and were often held for weeks at inland storage points to prevent port jams. Says the Government: it usually paid the full freight rate. For such "overcharges," Attorney General Tom Clark last week asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to make U.S. railroads refund "between $1 and $3 billion...
Last week the baleful word marijuana* was on every Hollywood tongue. The most self-conscious city of a self-conscious nation was in for a first-rate scandal, and it hated and feared every whisper...