Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fair and reasonable observer can blame the British Socialists for causing their country's economic crisis. But they can be blamed for aggravating it. London's Economist, while reiterating its opinion that the crisis is "an expression of volcanic upheavals in the economy of the whole world" (see below), last week wrote...
Effect & Pattern. With all the testimony in, the board retired for a fortnight to draft its recommendations. Though neither side has to accept the findings, they are bound to have a potent effect; the side that flouts them may well have to fight public opinion in case of a strike. The steelworkers have set a Sept. 14 deadline for an agreement-or a strike...
...cloud no bigger than a publicity man's handout. But by last week it was a fat thunderhead of pressagentry that threatened to soak the U.S. right down to its grass roots. Paramount called it a "motion picture merchandising method...which sets a completely new standard in harnessing opinion-influencing power to film promotion...
...Actor Henry Wilcoxon, had left Hollywood to turn on the downpour in 25 major cities. With him was Pressagent Richard Condon, who planned the campaign, and luggage containing 400 pounds of promotion material and special gadgets. Wilcoxon's mission: to pour it on for six groups of "public opinion leaders" in each city-women's clubs, churches and religious groups, school officials, fashion designers, manufacturers and retailers, the press, radio and TV and film exhibitors...
...some form, poliomyelitis is probably one of the commonest diseases. Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold. Millions of such cases are never recognized. The lucky victim, once his system has thrown off the virus, appears to be immune to further attacks...