Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff of his World-including Morrill Goddard, who was to steer the blatant American Weekly toward the world's biggest circulation with such stories as NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO THE FRONT DOOR. From then on W.R.'s Journal outplayed the World at its own scare-head-hunting game. It was the Hearst-Pulitzer tug-of-war over Richard Outcault's forlorn Yellow Kid that brought on the day of the colored comic strip, and gave "yellow journalism" its name...
...Around Richmond, Va., health workers sprayed DDT, poured oil on ponds and waterholes to stem a mosquito-borne outbreak of eastern encephalitis (brain inflammation) which started a scare. Two encephalitis deaths were proved, four more suspected. ¶ New U.S. polio cases reported last week totaled 773, up 30% over the week before-and not far behind the 802 tallied in the same week last year. ¶ The German-founded Schering Corp. (run by the Office of Alien Property) became the world's second producer of cortisone,* began distribution of Cortogen, a preparation for eye diseases. ¶ A Navy doctor...
Merchants, still plagued by heavy inventories, were also cutting retail prices to move goods faster. The move paid off: sales rose a bit higher than the same time last year, when war-scare buying was at a peak. Retail food prices were still edging up. This week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that retail food prices went up ½ of 1 % in the last half of June, pushing the food-price index 12% above the pre-Korean level. But there were surpluses-and probably lower prices-ahead. Farm planting, said the Agriculture Department, is at the highest level since...
...Sarnoff, these were all skirmishes, nothing to scare him from his plans to expand RCA into new territory. He is already itching to put RCA into the electric-appliance business, NBC into the movie business (to make films for television), and is planning a "pay-as-you-hear" TV system which would not depend on telephones as does Zenith Radio Corp.'s system (TIME, June 4). Above all, he is confident that the vast sums he has poured into research will continue to pay off with more spectacular advances than even his color television tube...
...condors. The islands' cliffs have been topped with walls to make the birds take off at a sharp rate of climb instead of trailing their feet and knocking precious guano into the water. Passing ships are prohibited from blowing their whistles, for even a brief toot will scare the birds into the air, where they mill in black clouds wasting their guano...