Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the freedom, responsibilities and mores of the U. S. Press are today a public issue, TIME Inc. last year undertook a nationwide survey of the Press, using its own reporters and the machinery of the FORTUNE polls. In its August issue, out this week, FORTUNE prints the results of that survey. They constitute, for the first time in the long history of the free-press debate, a comprehensive body of fact, showing what the people think of the Press. Notable findings...
...Congressional committee, have sued in the courts and taken their licking. In the courts Willkie has taken his beating with the rest, but he has seldom come off second best in sparring before committees or in political debate. Resourceful, informed, more publicly articulate than any big U. S. businessman today, he turned committee hearings into promotion for his own political-economic doctrines. He emerged from his fights bigger in public stature than he went...
...hire 500 salesmen to sell electrical devices. C. & S. began to extend its lines into rural areas; as electric consumption increased, it began to lower its rates, inviting more consumption. When Willkie took over in 1933, Commonwealth & Southern's average domestic rate per kilowatt hour was 6?. Today...
...effectiveness of his fight is shown by two facts: 1) that Congress is now highly critical of TVA and similar projects-and the whole yardstick idea has taken a political beating, 2) that Wendell Willkie (a lifelong Indiana Democrat) is today the only businessman in the U. S. who is ever mentioned as a Presidential possibility...
...Today Wendell Willkie is the biggest political figure in U. S. business. Electric power (he calls it "par") is his business, but power in the general sense is a word that recurs often in his philosophy. Free enterprise, free competition and free trade are his tenets for raising the economic standards of society...