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...helicopters to spot the new models, often wait on street corners in hopes of snapping one as it passes by on its way to a dealer. Automakers defend their summer secrecy on the ground that early pictures of new cars encourage customers to wait for the new models in stead of buying current models. They also hope to achieve maximum publicity impact by releasing stories and pictures in all newspapers and magazines on a set day. Last week the game was on, with new models in production but official debuts still weeks away...
...polite Victorian society, says Author Terrot. "The very horror of the crime," wrote a London editor, "was the chief seat of its persistence." After one reform bill was "talked out" of Parliament in the spring of 1885, the Pall Mall Gazette's W. T. (for William Thomas) Stead, a brilliant crusading journalist, published a four-part study entitled The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon that stunned the nation and appalled the world. The reform bill was reintroduced, rushed through Parliament, and became law in August...
...Majesty's government feebly attempted to save face by railroading Editor Stead to jail on a technicality, but after a few months the law was enforced and the white-slave operation smashed in England. In other parts of the world, particularly in Asia, it continues on a vast scale. How vast? The prudish horror of the Victorian era is matched by the let-a-commission-do-it approach of unshockable modern society. No statistics are available...
Caution. Among other things, the Fed's cautious statisticians discovered that they had been vastly understating the rise in production of U.S. consumer goods. In stead of gaining 3% a year, it has been going up 3.7% a year; the rise in twelve years was 58% instead of about 40% on the old index. Likewise, the Fed neglected to count in its industrial index the output of two rapidly expanding major indus tries, the electric and natural gas utilities. Finally, rapidly advancing technology and the changing character of U.S. daily life had made the importance assigned to many industries...
...crowd broke into ululations of "Salavat!" Someone shouted for Mahmud to sing a song, and he obliged. A peasant stepped forward, cried: "I am from Kuchesfahan. I don't know this man and don't know why they are hanging him. Let them hang me in his stead." Others cried: "He is young-have pity!" and "Let him live...