Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Journal also ran an economic shocker under the headline SCANDALOUS PROFITS. The story: textile importers were marking up New York prices for profits ranging up to 450%. The carefully documented exposé started a consumers' boycott, sent cloth prices tumbling, forced a government investigation of the textile industry. Hundreds...
When five-year-old Janie Franz turned up in Philadelphia last week, a day after she had been kidnaped from Trenton, the Associated Press solemnly surveyed the geography of the case and told how her father took the good news: " 'I'd run all the way to Philadelphia...
In downtown Chicago, the posters had been up for days-"State Street is ready for school." The shops had been ready with new wardrobes, the stationery stores with book bags and fountain pens. Last week, schoolchildren in Chicago and elsewhere were reluctantly ready, too. Their jeep-hats bobbed in school...
Roundheads & Rome. The ticking began almost at birth. The son of Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan and grandnephew of Lord Macaulay, young George grew up in a rambling mansion in Shakespeare's Warwickshire. He was a "queer, happy little boy," who would play soldier ("Napoleonic period") by the hour...
Last week, despairing of a legislative remedy, the U.S. Public Health Service turned to the next best thing: a nationwide educational program to encourage housewives to ask the grocer for iodized salt. When Ohio's Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton introduced a compulsory iodization bill, the Salt Producers' Association...