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...thankful. In the midst of hunger and want it knew unequaled prosperity. The year's harvest was the biggest in history. With few exceptions, everyone who wanted a job had one. Labor got a third round of wage increases, and strikes were at a postwar low. Prices inched upward and everyone worried, complained, and talked about them. But the U.S. citizen was earning more actual buying power than ever before. He also managed to save some money (personal savings were up $4.9 billion over 1947). The year's crop of babies pushed the population...
...changes in social systems. The changes occur because of "contradictions " (jargon for conflicts, struggles). The changes are not just the defeat of one of the forces in contradiction, but the evolution of something new, something different from both (this is the "dialectic"). The something new is always a step upward, the evolution by violent cross-breeding of a higher type of society...
...Soldiers Field. "All right, step up and ring the bell," Jordan invited. "It's easy--watch how Elmer does it." End Coach Elmer Madar grinned sheepishly, hitched up his pants, and charged the dummy. There was a sincere smack and the weight on the end of the pulley jerked upward and slammed into the iron bar with the impact of a pistol shot...
...advertisement was right about above-ground explosions like those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There radiation was the third hazard, since most of the radiation went upward and was absorbed into the atmosphere. But the Army failed to say that with underwater explosions like the Bikini bomb blast (as TIME reported), radiation is the No. I hazard...
Lowered Sights. All this made the usually astute Wall Street Journal jump to the conclusions that the Journal's decision "is expected to foreshadow a reversal of the upward trend in magazine advertising fees"; and that subscription sales, as well as newsstand sales, were "sliding." But A.B.C. figures showed this was not true-not yet, anyway...