Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commodity prices hit their lowest level in three years Tuesday, according to Associated Press dispatches...
...Soviet Union, both within and outside of the United Nations. The facts also show that the Soviet Union does not now desire such conferences. The Russians know how to do diplomatic business; they know that the way to got things done is not through the agency of the world press. In 1939, when Russia wanted to make a deal with Nazi Germany, the Soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi Germany, the soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi campaign to a conciliatory position, and the subsequent negotiations were all highly secret and ultra-diplomatic. The Russians...
...whole affair at Seattle has the macabre air of the trial of the knave of hearts in Alice's Wonderland. Dr. Allen invents interpretations; Miss Thompson and Mr. Smith sit in the Jury Box, busily scribbling "due process" on their slates; and the rest of the press shout "off with their heads." But while Alice's dream of the knave's trial vanished, we may find the nightmare of the University of Washington spreading to legislators and trustees all over the country...
...profits were not confined to Big Steel. (President Truman, at his press conference, said he had always contended that steel prices were too high and he still thinks so.) Bethlehem Steel's net for 1948 was $90.3 million, up 76.8%, but the company cut no extra share of the dividend pie. Armco Steel, with a 28% increase in its profit to $32 million, boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half...
...week's end the Military Government slapped Editor Foss down. It apparently saw no reason for a free press in the "American tradition" in a country that had no such tradition and was not free. An investigation of Die Neue Zeitung's policies and staffers was ordered. General Clay, visiting in Frankfurt, was told that Foss had said the paper had been "too much of a lecturer with a raised forefinger," but was now to be regarded "as a forum." Snapped Clay: "It was never the former, and it is not going to be the latter." He ordered...