Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reason for its success among physicians is that the originator of Rex Morgan is a doctor himself who uses the pen name "Dal Curtis." His identity is kept a secret by Publishers Syndicate because Curtis, now 40, is practicing in an Eastern city and he fears his fellow doctors wouldn't like the idea of his comic-stripping on the side...
...other industries may also be controlled soon, food prices continued to skedaddle gaily upwards (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But though food comprises a big 40% of the Government's cost-of-living index (v. 4.8 for autos), there was little talk in Washington about slapping on mandatory controls. Reason: there was nothing that Price Stabilizer Michael DiSalle could legally do to stop the rise in most foods...
...Ordered suppliers of cadmium (used for electroplating other metals) to fill no more than 50% of their defense orders on hand, allot the rest to essential civilian use until a long-range cadmium program is drawn up. Reason: cadmium is in such short supply that defense orders alone would easily gobble up more of the metal than is now available...
...mobilization speech last week, the market started out at a fast clip, with textiles and such war stocks as Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing leading the parade. In the short, half-day session, 2,020,000 shares were traded and both the rail averages and Dow-Jones industrials scooted up. Reason for the rise: after all the grim advance notices, the President wasn't nearly as tough about controls and cuts in civilian production as Wall Street had expected. Furthermore, investors saw more inflation ahead and rushed to buy stocks as a hedge against...
...Jersey, a county commander of the Catholic War Veterans boasted that he had been able to persuade two theaters to cancel bookings of the Charlie Chaplin classic, City Lights. He was trying to promote similar pressure by the veterans' organization on a national scale. The reason, he explained, is that the real-life Chaplin "appears guilty" of "Communistic leanings...