Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American prosperity is a shaky temporary structure, declared President Truman in a mid-year economic report to Congress and the public yesterday. "Basic adjustments" are called for in wages, prices, and profits, he warned, before inaction produces serious unemployment and business decline...
...graduate, they report, is torch-singer Libby Holman's secretary, while another compiles tax reports for a fiduciary trust company and loves...
When that story appeared in print before, it was frankly labeled fiction. In a short story about supersonic flight, in the April 5 Saturday Evening Post, one of Gerald Kersh's characters said: "I have the report of the Montana crash. Ted Oxen took off alone in a certain jet-propelled plane. . . . Out of the scorched and twisted wreckage the authorities picked certain remains of a human being. This human being must have been a child nine or ten years old, according to the analysis...
Chief cause of the upsurge was the Department of Agriculture's midseason crop report, even though prospects were described as "surprisingly good." The bumper wheat crop, greatest in U.S. history, looked even bigger than it had a few weeks ago. Now the estimate...
Chain Reaction. But reports of corn were far from good. Cold weather and floods had taken a heavy toll, leaving an estimated yield of only 2.6 billion bu. The crop was still almost up to the 1936-45 average, but it was down 21% from last year. Good weather, said the report optimistically, might brighten the corn picture considerably. But corn users, not willing to take that chance, started to buy heavily...