Public Interest in How Business Works Grows Through Arts
Public interest in how business operates is rising through Broadway hits and best seller lists. Authors and producers explore corporate power, labor, and ethics, with works like Executive Suite and The Pajama Game drawing attention to boardrooms and factory floors.
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Sam Dawson
New York
Ers
Frank Norris
Theodore Dreiser
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
Hucksters
CD Plans Shifted Under Charges of Commercialism
Philadelphia news item reports FCDA official Harold L. Aitken describing a canned milk firm’s plan to issue civil defense tags on milk labels. Pet Milk will charge 2 cents per tag, FCDA inscribed, with profits to fund defense efforts. The article also mentions cancer mortality estimates for 24 million Americans.
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Philadelphia
Federal
Civil Defense Administration
Civil Defense
Harold L. Aitken
FCDA
Pet
Aitken
Red Justice Catches Up With Thieves
Moscow Izvestia reports the defeat of a purse snatching and extortion gang in Molotov. Six suspects, including a woman, targeted women’s purses and used IDs for threats. The leader made homemade knives and poison pens. Six more convicts await labor camp sentences.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Soviet Union
Molotov
Urals
Sevestia
Divided House Split Between Detroit And Grosse Pointe
Real estate man Edward J. Strata lives on the Detroit Grosse Pointe dividing line. He says he sleeps in Detroit and eats in Grosse Pointe. He notes the main headache is both cities taxing his property.
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Detroit
Edward J. Strata
Grosse Pointe
Strata
Worry Clinic advises fair parenting and family talk
In a case from the Worry Clinic, six year old Roger counts strokes to claim parental bias, but the father’s impartiality is uncertain. The piece urges open discussion, impartial judgments, and suggests a 200 point rating scale for parents to rate themselves and invite children to rate them.
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Roger
Middletown Chosen for National Vehicle Safety Checks
Middletown joins 300 cities in a nation wide voluntary vehicle safety program during Safety Week May 15 to 21. The National Safety Council Ohio Department of Highway Safety and Look Magazine sponsor the project with local supervision by the Division of Police and the Middletown Pacemakers to run inspection lanes on Woodside Avenue near Verity Parkway. In the ancient world March was the first month of the year.
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Middletown
National Safety Council
Ohio Department of Highway Safety
Look Magazine
Division of Police
Blonde Watcher's Society Reported In Houston Lounge
A Houston lounge scene draws attention as local patrons claim to belong to the group calling itself the Blonde Watcher's Society. Members speak plainly about their existence and purpose amid the casual gathering.
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Houston
Tex
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Business Mirror
WWE American Distilling CO
Pekin, Ill
Marilyn Monroe
Tennessee Williams
Morosco Theater
Red Justice
Miami Valley
Dayton Bread Company
Dayto
George W. Crane
Norman
Uries
Detroit Business District
Zemo
Universal Sewing Service
Cali
Automatic Sales CO
Olive ST. ST. Louis
General Foods
Tee ——— Mitt
Skel
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