Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very often the public views a news magazine on variations between two extremes: either believing every word, or doubting every report. China is indeed a perplexing problem. Even living here for the past two years has not lifted the screen of mystery. Nevertheless I must let you know . . . that your coverage of the situation has fitted the actual situation to the last dotted...
...ever been, the news of Canada and Latin America was placed in separate major departments in TIME in order to call our readers' attention to its growing significance. Now the editors have decided to combine Canada and Latin America into a single new department, the better to report the news of their increasingly collective actions. In the last ten years, for instance, trade between Canada and Latin America has increased 1,000%. Whereas Canada's trade with Latin America was one-half of 1% of her total foreign commerce before the war, by 1946 it had jumped...
From this coalition of writers, researchers and editors, backed up by the news coverage described above, will come, TIME'S editors believe, a weekly report on Canadian and Latin American news which should be more penetrating and informative than ever before...
...Washington, Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, pince-nezed chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave some reassurance. In his monthly report on the economy, Dr. Nourse predicted that neither the drop in employment nor the decline in food prices would develop into a trend (see BUSINESS). An enormous total of 57,500,000 people was at work. The decline in food prices, he added, was a reflection of last year's bumper crops rather than an indication of a slipping economy...
...hours, they had lain, nearly suffocated, in the noisome hold of a 45-ft. schooner as it rolled and pitched on the voyage from Havana to Florida. But the U.S. border patrol had been tipped off from Cuba; an amphibious plane had spotted the ship and radioed a report to shore. They were seized as the schooner slipped into the little fishing village of Marathon, 100 miles south of Miami on the Florida Keys...