Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...country's 8,500,000 stockholders, extra and special dividends came almost too fast to count. Items: Allied Chemical, $2; American-Hawaiian Steamship, $1.75; Loew's Inc., $1; J. C. Penney, $2; U. S. Gypsum, $1. The New York Journal of Commerce estimated that they would bring the year's total to $3,565,000,000, up 13% from 1939, 27% from...
...four years the Hearst New York Journal & American had screamed that the city's schools and colleges were honeycombed with Reds. Bertrand Russell's appointment last spring to teach at City College (later overruled by the courts) was the last straw. Taxpayers, American Legionnaires and Tammanyites, who have no love either for Communism or the city's anti-Tammany school and college boards, got the Legislature to vote a sweeping inquiry into the State's educational system, including "subversive" activities in New York City...
Meanwhile, the Journal & American and the American Legion demanded that Brooklyn College's alleged Communists be dismissed, under a law (enacted last year) barring from civil-service employment those who advocate overthrow of the Government by force. But Investigator Windels and President Gideonse agreed that a teacher could not be dismissed merely for membership in the Communist Party, could be dismissed for "improper" political activity (e.g., classroom propaganda for Communism...
...inundated Europe and the U. S. during the 1830s; others followed in 1847, 1889. Greatest epidemic in history was the scourge of 1918-19, which killed more than 20,000,000 people all over the world, more than half a million in the U. S. alone. Last year Ihe Journal of the American Medical Association predicted a great epidemic...
...last week their town had grown to 5.000. Where there had been three people to a house, there now were twelve. Rents doubled, trailer camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives in a truck with an oil stove to keep him warm. Wrote one harassed inhabitant in the Louisville Courier-Journal: ". . . Although we were paid well for our acreage, still it isn't so easy to stand by and see the familiar old oak, the lilacs, hollyhocks and roses around the door trampled under foot to make way for the giant smokestacks that rose almost overnight...