Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ebony, a picture magazine for Negroes, first went on sale in 1945, it was without a shred of advertising, sold less than 25,000 copies. Last week Ebony was celebrating its tenth anniversary with a bulky 180-page issue crammed with $186,-ooo worth of ads and an estimated circu lation of 506,000 (including readers in 15 foreign countries). This week the success of Ebony, which "emphasizes the positive and minimizes the negative" of race relations, will be the focal point of a Voice of America report on the U.S. Negro's progress...
CONGRATULATIONS FOR CLEAR AND THOROUGH REPORTING ON THE SHOWDOWN IN SAIGON. JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE YOUR MAY 9 STORY WAS PUBLISHED WE RECEIVED THIS URGENT CABLE FROM PREMIER DIEM I "ALMOST 1,OOO,OOO HUMAN BEINGS FLED FROM COMMUNIST NORTH VIET NAM IN LAST FEW MONTHS. THIS IS GREATEST BLOW COMMUNISTS HAVE SUFFERED IN ASIA. THESE PEOPLE MUST BE SAVED. LAST GATE TO FREEDOM, PORT HAIPHONG, CLOSES MAY 16. 25O,OOO MORE NOW TRYING TO ESCAPE BEFORE DEADLINE...
...OWES $25,OOO BACK TAXES AND INTEREST, REVENUE AGENTS CLAIM. Last week McCarthy called a press conference. Its purpose: to flourish a Treasury tax-refund check...
...devoutly pro-American as his non-proletarian father was proCommunist. He seized every opportunity to tune in secretly to broadcasts of the Voice of America and the BBC, pored over contraband U.S.-history books, and whirled in delight to the downbeat of U.S. jazz and "boogy-voogy" crying '"Ooo, San Looey" as he gyrated...
When the occupation ended, the number of Christians went down again. Today there are 230,000 Protestants and 200-ooo Roman Catholics in a population o'f 88 million. The only way to change the situation, says Tomio Muto, is through evangelism. "If we could use a $10 million fund for three years-using radio newspapers, the theater, all propaganda agencies-mobilize all Japanese ministers and all Christians, then I could convert 1,000,000 Japanese. Then Japan will change. Politics will change. Corruption gambling and drinking will be attacked. With 1,000,000 Christians we would have...