Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other readers of a less dour turn of mind thought that the campaign was a first-rate contribution and should be continued indefinitely. They even suggested subjects for future series of advertisements (e.g., recreation: to show how advertising has helped the mass production of movies, sporting goods, etc.). Still another wrote as follows: "Your series is well directed toward making economic points, but does not do the job it should in highlighting the peculiarly democratic political contribution of advertising. You could have shown that but for advertisers there would be no free press . . . On this score it would have been...
...warned that there was inflationary trouble ahead. Before a congressional subcommittee last week, he ticked off a few signals: consumer credit is now up to $17 billion, almost double what it was at war's end, and the Federal Government is running into the red at the rate of $5.5 billion a year. Too many houses are being built on too slim security, said he, and the new corporation pension plans, which he flatly called "a big mistake," will keep prices high. He thought that the time had come for FRB to tighten up on credit and thus discourage...
...other side, the utilities argue that the lower rates are a sham. Private companies pay 16 percent taxes while public ones pay six or seven percent in lieu of taxes. Public plants can also obtain finances at a low interest rate from the REA while the private company must go to the money market. This last argument has less significance that it used to because of the fallen interest rate. But these companies insist that the tax differential amounts to a subsidy of the public plants. Their argument is summed up in a caption that appeared under a picture...
...worth reviving. Unhappily, last week's revival was more in the nature of a coffin nail. It lacked skill, perception and tension: at its best it could only serve up gall and wormwood as a kind of sizzling platter. As the wife, Mady Christians did, at any rate, sizzle now & then. As the husband, Raymond Massey merely spouted, as if announcing all the terrible things that did not seem to be happening...
Every year, some 10,000 ailing babies are born in the U.S. to parents with hostile blood types caused by the mysterious Rh factor.† Even with the most modern treatment, the best that doctors could hope for in such cases was to hold the death rate down to 20%. Last week, after listening to a pessimistic summary of these facts, doctors at the American Academy of Pediatrics convention in San Francisco heard some unexpected good news. Dr. Louis K. Diamond of Boston Children's Hospital rose from the audience and said quietly: "I would be remiss...