Word: news
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ourselves manufacture news. We make a practice of 'rounding up' opinion on events, occasionally manufacture news about our own crusades by playing them far out of proportion to the news value...
...Under our doctrine of 'objectivity.' what a man says is news whether or not it happens to be true. When Senator McCarthy made wild charges, we blew them up-even after we knew them to be untrue...
...economic news of 1959 was that, in a year when the U.S. reached new heights of prosperity, the fruits of high production and resourceful salesmanship were at long last shared and enjoyed by a multitude of other nations...
...expects big increases in the appliance industry-8% for clothes dryers, 10% for refrigerators. Moreover, plant and equipment expenditures will rise from $34 billion in 1959 to a rate of $40 billion in the fourth quarter of 1960. With all the booming good business, the Government hopes for good news on the budget debt: a surplus of $2 billion in the fiscal year starting July...
...Abominable. In Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer Columnist Charles Craven discussed a city recreation department snowman contest, said there would be "two divisions-one for white children and one for colored," but "the snow men in both divisions will be white...