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...Merrill Lynch posted stock certificates of companies as familiar to farmers as Sears, Roebuck & Co., General Motors Corp., General Electric Co. and Corn Products Refining Co., and pointed out that the shares have been paying 5 to 7%. Though Merrill Lynch was careful not to draw the comparison, this is far bigger than the return that farmers get from savings banks...
...powerful recapitulation) they and Choreographer Humphrey had won an ovation. New works by other American Dance Festival regulars, including Sophie Maslow's fine but unfinished Festival, based on stories by Yiddish Story Writer Sholom Aleichem, and Jane Dudley's wispy Vagary (music by Bela Bartok), suffered by comparison...
There is no accurate comparison between polio conditions this year or in 1948 (with 27,680 cases) and those in 1916 (with 30,000). In reality there must have been two or three times as many cases in the 1916 epidemic which went unrecognized and unreported. As diagnosis and reporting improve each year, more mild cases get hospital treatment, which is all to the good. They also get into the statistics and the headlines...
...Sydney Telegraph rushed Australian Crown Prosecutor Charles Rooney 12,000 miles to London by air to cover the trial with a lawyer's eye. The London Daily Mail hired long-haired Author Peter Quennell, who was obligingly overwhelmed: "By comparison, Crippen was a sentimentalist and Landru† a boastful playboy." Even the dignified London Times gave the story three full columns...
...possibly a bellwether of how good "normal" might be. G.E.'s President Charles Wilson reported a second-quarter net of $19.8 million, down 32% from the same 1948 period. However, profit was more than 100% above G.E.'s earnings of ten years ago. By such a prewar comparison, the current "recession" looked fairly prosperous...