Word: shockers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calling his latest diatribe "strong meat for babes," the author of The History of Mr. Polly and Mr. Britling Sees It Through published only 2,000 copies of his sensational book, presumably to add to the discomfort of the comfortable classes, who will not be able to buy the shocker when the 2,000 copies are snapped up. If present plans hold, the book will not be published...
...workers through a series of questions designed to peg down their postwar plans, the first such big worker-by-worker poll in the U.S. Last week, Shipbuilder Kaiser, who footed the bill, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Maritime Commission, which helped poll, announced the statistical shocker: other than present employment, 86% of the workers have no postwar job in sight...
...outstanding example is U.S. Steel. Despite near capacity production that boosted gross sales to nearly $2,000,000,000, net profits were down to $63,642,322, some 10% under the preceding year. But to stockholders the shocker was that earnings plummeted so fast in the last quarter that Big Steel failed to make its $1 quarterly dividend (by 19? a share) for the first time since September 1942. Increased labor costs and production changes accounted for much of the last quarter's decline...
...newsmen, long annoyed and alarmed by brass-buttoned minds, both amateur and professional, the statement was a shocker. Under the broad coverall of "security," the Army has become progressively stricter in defining what newsmen can print. Its new doctrine means, if its words mean anything, that the Army may now (by its "vested interest") definitively prescribe what news may be printed in wartime and what not. Seldom in democratic countries had a servant of the people gone so far before...
...debate touched off by the editorial shocker pointed up one of the great areas of American ignorance about war. Americans are rightly opposed to the use of poison gas by U.S. troops - but for the wrong reasons. The U.S. imagination has been fed by lurid writings of super-scientists and pacifist writers, picturing a "dew of death" which would wipe out whole cities overnight. Real scientists scoff at any such invention. Gases today are basically the same as in World War I. The real reason for not using gas is not that it is inhumane or immoral, but that...