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...that the climate is once more suitable for poisonous mushrooms. Now that President Roosevelt is dead, and in the hope that the American people have forgotten Nazi Germany, the McCormicks and the Gerald L. K. Smiths are again playing upon the fear of Russian expansion to promote their own brand of ostrich-like islationism. In light of the lessons of the 30's, this isolation is more than a short-sighted national policy. It is an international tragedy. In spite of its tender age and influence, "American Action" must be brought out into the light before its contagion...
...Eversharp had passed Parker Pen Co. and Sheaffer, and had an ace up its sleeve to grab off the brand new ballpen market. The ace: the North and Central American rights to the Biro patents, for which it had laid out $500,000 (TIME...
...advertising copywriters, every brand of cigaret is peculiar, unique-or at least different from every other brand. But for 20 years no major brand has differed from the others in wholesale price. Last week, as cigaret manufacturers raised their wholesale prices ½? a pack, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. stepped slightly out of line. Lucky Strike, Philip Morris, Old Gold, and Chesterfield went up to $6.50-a-thousand (after trade discounts). Reynolds put Camels up just short of this -$6.48 a thousand...
...year more people, and more important people, listened to his prophecies of disaster. In 1933, Secretary of the Interior Ickes made him head of a newly created bureau: the Soil Erosion Service. Two years later Franklin Roosevelt summoned Bennett to the White House, made him head of the brand-new Soil Conservation Service...
...Peace . . . & Progress." In short, the President refused to play the Kelly-McCormack brand of politics. Perhaps he thought his way was better politics. Bob Hannegan gulped, threw away the resolution and announced that he and the executive committee stood "100% behind the President." The armed forces promised to help some; instead of taking 25% of the available legitimate meat they would take only 10%. Ed Kelly and the other committeemen passed a statement of policy: "Peace, production and progress-these are the watchwords of the Democratic Party for 1946 . . . under the inspired leadership of Harry Truman." Glumly they went home...