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...title is all-important. More than one-fourth of all moviegoers buy tickets without knowing anything about the feature except its title. (Example: with an almost identical theme, two titles registered at opposite poles on A.R.I, popularity tests: Hitler's Children was a beauty; The Master Race...
...weeks, amidst the plenty and the plush of Atlantic City's Traymore Hotel, worried UNRRA delegates from 48 nations dealt with gloom. The world food crisis was worse; famine threatened one-fourth of the earth's population-some 500,000,000 people. The U.S. had fallen behind on its promised food deliveries. Thirty of the 120 days in which the immediate emergency was to be met had slipped by, and the problem had deepened daily...
Their backgrounds are about what you would expect: almost half of them are the sons of professional men who were mainly clerics, professors, doctors, lawyers, journalists. One-fourth of their fathers were businessmen; the rest were farmers, auditors, a railroad conductor, etc. Their mothers (51% of them) were housewives, but the rest practiced a variety of occupations such as school teacher (14%), concert pianist, actress, periodical illustrator...
Europe's grain fields lacked tools and transport; drought and locusts have blighted crops in Argentina, Africa, India. Even Canada's great prairies-from which the U.S. had borrowed at times-harvested one-fourth less wheat last year...
...About one-fourth of the 850,000 U.S. schoolteachers get less than $100 a month; 25,000, mostly in rural districts, get less than...