Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report that the "government-owned fleet, now being operated by the Shipping Board can be sold, and American companies can operate them successfully" comes, therefore as welcome news to most citizens. The problem of disposal of the vast fleet built to carry troops and supplies to France has ever been a pressing one and has never been solved. Government operation has been carried on at a considerable loss. Private companies have hesitated to assume the risks incident to ocean navigation. This fact is indeed the best commentary on the real status of the American merchant marine...
...newspaper report quoted above further indicates that the proposed private operation of the American ships would have to be aided by cheap loans, tariff provisions, and other government encouragement. Such a policy can be justified only if it contributes to national defense, and so far there has been little or no consideration of this aspect of the problem. Sentiment has clouded facts...
...epidemics, reported by each city to be well in hand, called forth fresh outbursts from antiserum faddists, notably Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle to vulgarians of "physical culture." Macfadden's Manhattan sheetlet, The Graphic, ran "screamers" about "two persons known to be dead from tetanus following the injection of pus from diseased animals" in Baltimore. Health officials admitted the deaths from tetanus, then explained to the newspaper that the serum injected was not "cow-pox," but human smallpox, scientifically prepared in the glycerated lymph of calves. "This," said The Graphic, "is little else than a form of variolation which...
...Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey) at whose plant at Bayway, N.J., workers manufacturing tetraethyl lead went mad with lead poisoning last fall and died in straight jackets (TIME, Nov. 10). For the prosecution there will be scientists who maintain that a U. S. Bureau of Mines report, issued at Pittsburgh in November and accepted by health authorities as a clean bill of health for leaded gasoline, was inconclusive and premature...
...Mars kept his date with Mother Earth a few minutes after midnight this morning. He made that date in 1804. Shy bachelor, it will be the year 2007 before he comes back courting again" &3151;readers of The New York Evening Post may recognize Reporter Dudley Nichols' astronomical report of last August...