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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Citizen had long suspected that its own employees were involved. "I know that some of my men contribute to it," growled Citizen Editor Don E. Weaver last week. "And it's a dirty bird that fouls its own nest." For all the fact that Grove and Franken have often criticized real Citizen shortcomings, Editor Weaver may have a point...
These figures are the latest and sharpest reminder of the steady erosion in the once dominant U.S. trade position around the world. As the industrial plants of West Europe and Japan (see below) become larger and more efficient, often by adopting U.S. methods and automation, competition for world markets grows tougher by the day. The U.S. is being challenged in some of its prime markets, notably in Latin America, by everything from foreign-made appliances to agricultural machinery...
...only nation equipped with planes to operate long-distance service. It campaigned for a free competition agreement, but the plane-short British forced a compromise that provided for an equitable exchange of traffic between nations signing a bilateral pact. Since then the U.S. has often ignored breaches by foreign airlines, drawn criticism from U.S. carriers for giving out fat new routes without getting much in return...
Foreign carriers have rushed into the U.S. in such numbers that 40 now draw from the U.S. market v. 22 in 1949. Most of them get far more than U.S. carriers out of the bargain, often add extra flights to siphon off as many passengers as possible in violation of the spirit of the Bermuda agreement. In return for permitting Pan American to serve Amsterdam, KLM flies into New York and Houston. Result: last year KLM collected $29.4 million on 86,225 U.S. passengers, while Pan Am got only $1,700,000 from 2,842 Dutch passengers. While cutting into...
...seventh of all the world's people suffer from trachoma. No killer, but the cause of maddening itching and burning in the eyes, it impairs vision, often leads to blindness. Now, after 50 years of frustrating efforts to find incontrovertible proof that the disease is caused by a virus, Britain's Medical Research Council reports that researchers have closed the circle of evidence. It was a blind man who helped them to see the proof they needed...