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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of custom-built sets has been great during the past year and promises to increase. The effect of this is slowly being felt by the makers of standard "quality" phonographs. The coming battle will force them to improve their products to aid the record listener, as the record battle has brought new quality possibilities to record making...
...Western Germany, the blue dismissal envelopes are going out to workers in factories and shops at the rate of 15,000 a day. Five hundred thousand Germans have been added to the unemployment rolls in the past two months; more than one worker in ten is now jobless. Only a fraction of the unemployment figures can be accounted for by the refugees from the Soviet zone, and ex-P.W.s coming home from Soviet prison camps. With a few exceptions (e.g., coal mines and steel mills), almost every industry has had to let workers go. Businessmen say: "Customers just aren...
...nation's most popular native painter is still Frederick Judd Waugh (rhymes with pshaw). His turbulent surfscapes won the Carnegie International's popularity prize five years in a row (1934-38), and since his death in 1940 they have gone right on pleasing the public. For the past five years his March-North Atlantic has been touring the country in the Encyclopaedia Britannica's traveling collection of U.S. art. In 26 cities, Britannica announced last week, the public had voted Waugh's picture the best of the 124 in the collection...
Chief Censor. Probably the most influential voice in determining what is acceptable advertising is the New York Times, which has cut the basic pattern for many of its contemporaries. As "chief censor" of the Times for the past 18 years, Joseph W. Gannon, a graduate of Dartmouth and the N. W. Ayer ad agency, sets the standards for the Times-which he calls "the strictest in the field." Last year, redfaced, blue-nosed Censor Gannon and staff reworded, revised or rejected...
...Bread Alone. The manifesto set forth that the root of labor's past unrest and dissatisfaction was management's own failure, all too often, to "meet the needs of man's moral and social nature." His needs went far deeper than a good wage. They included the need of recognition of his dignity as an individual, his desire for the esteem of others, and the assurance of a decent living and a secure future...