Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utah, plodding silver-bloc Senator Abe Murdock was unopposed in the Democratic senatorial primary. With Representatives Walter Granger and J. Will Robinson, he will base next fall's campaign on Democratic success in keeping the $191 million, warbuilt Geneva Steel plant going by selling it to U.S. Steel...
...Success Story. Portuguese, however, looked happy enough last week as Lisbon turned out for the annual People's Fair (to aid Lisbon's numerous orphans). They rented boats on Palhava Park lake. They smeared their swarthy faces with spun sugar candy. They took pleasure in their jados ("songs of fate"), although these ditties are not always gay. Sample...
Unhappy Ending. Behind this glossy exterior of success, decay eats away at Portugal. Financial Wizard Salazar has not balanced the budgets of Portuguese families. Food prices have nearly doubled since 1939. One typical family with a monthly income of 1,200 escudos in May paid out 1,663 escudos for rent, food, clothing, water and light. Strictly controlled wages lag far behind. Government workers, especially important to a dictatorship, got a 25% increase in 1944 to meet a 112% rise in the retail price index...
Last week Dr. Read had found a disciple in the U.S. A New Jersey doctor, Blackwell Sawyer of Lakewood, announced (in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology) that he had tried Dr. Read's approach on 168 patients, with success in nine out of ten cases. Comments of mothers: "the happiest moment of my life," "it did not amount to anything...
...Urbervilles ran serially in Harper's Bazar (then a different magazine, both in spelling and in spirit, from what it is now), and this too proved shocking to what J. Henry Harper described as "a number of anxious mothers." But Tess, quite apart from its notoriety, was a success. It established Hardy's transatlantic reputation...