Word: publicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loyalty, G-man Hoover looks like a man who longs for the simple combat of gangster days, when a criminal could sometimes be flushed out into the open and caught with a gun in his hand, instead of a lie on his tongue. But, conscientious cop and efficient public servant that he is, J. Edgar Hoover regards his new mission, and the attacks he receives because of it, as part of his job. He knows that he cannot afford to be too particular about the information he collects: 75% of FBI convictions began as tips. As for accusations that...
...polio. The two-year premium: $5 for an individual, $10 for a family, with benefits up to $5,000 per case. Last week, Continental found that it had an underwriter's bestseller. It had taken in almost $1,000,000 (90% from family policies) and a polio-conscious public was expected to run the total to $3,000,000 by year...
Many sections of the nation reported the number of polio victims rising rapidly. The U.S. Public Health Service (which tabulates its annual statistics from the third week of March, when cases are fewest) listed a total of 5,415 in the current "polio year," against 4,230 in the same period of 1948. But P.H.S. still insisted that the disease was epidemic only in some areas-Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Southern California...
...desperation, Acting Mayor Christopher wired the U.S. Embassy at Oslo: "Would the [Norwegian] government [object] to her appearance at a public concert in Norway?" It was a moot question: Flagstad has not sung in Norway since the war, and just last week the government brought suit to confiscate the estate of her husband, who had died before he could be tried for collaboration...
...brokers' offices last week, there were signs that the public, after long apathy, was beginning to get interested in buying stocks again. The volume of trading perked up, and stocks rose for the fifth week in a row. The Dow-Jones industrial averages hit 175.60, the highest mark in two months and 14 points above the bottom of the June tumble...