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Against the dire predictions of the pundits, domestic and European, U.S. business is winding up another banner year. In that happy situation, while the doomsayers began to talk ominously of the future, the U.S.S.R.'s propagandists ran off new and louder recordings of an old theme and broadcast them to the world. From Moscow last week...
...purpose of the scholarship fund is to give small amounts of money to boys who are in dire need. Many of the people who come to see us don't know where the next ten or 20 dollars is coming from...
...such indefinite terms that they can't be wrong. Only the future will determine whether the U.S. is now undergoing a "rolling readjustment" or "recession," or merely passing once again through a period of "Whatchamacallit," i.e., a troubled economic period which gives rise to all manner of dire predictions...
RADIO set production has come back so strongly this year, despite the dire predictions of television enthusiasts, that output for the first seven months totaled 7,941,000 v. 10,935,000 in all of 1952. Total for the year may exceed 14 million sets, one of the biggest in radio history. Reasons: the continuing demand for extra sets in the kitchen and bedroom, and car radio output...
...admit him to its law school on the ground that he could not find equal facilities anywhere else in the state. Since then. Negroes have found themselves on scores of once forbidden campuses. In almost every case, their experiences have fallen into a sort of pattern. There have been dire predictions of trouble and periods of tension. But the trouble has rarely materialized, and the tension has soon melted away...