Articles on Mass Communications in Magazines of the U. S. A.

Abstract

Assistod by Dean C. Baker, Michigan (6enoral Magazines); Donald E. Brown, Illinois Radio and Tolovision) ; Charles T. Duncan, Orogon I Community Nowspapen); Armirtead S. Pride, Lincoln (Negro Journalism) Denouement in two longstanding communication controversies took place during the last three months of I955 with the return of several Argentine newspapers, including La Prensa of Buenos Aires and El Intransigente of Salta, to their owners and the settlement of the Lamb case in favor of the licensee. Relations between the government and the press were active on a number of fronts. Investigation of newspapermen with alleged Communist backgrounds on the sta8 of the N.Y. Times by a Senate sub-committee drew criticism from that newspaper as an attempt at intimidation of the newspaper for past editorial stands. The Moss committee in Washington continued to examine news release procedures of a number of executive departments and agencies. An oficial, specially prominent in restricting news in the Commerce and Defense departments, left the federal service in what some sources claimed was an example of newspaper pressure.

Ferrous Metallurgy

“…Ion exchange can be used as a basis for separating desired constituents from matrix elements which may interfere with estimation of the constituents by convenient techniques. Such elements as titanium, vanadium, molybdenum, rare earths, and gallium have been separated in this manner (1, 20, 69,110, 124, HI)• Solvent extraction for separation of metals has been used to an increased extent (41,74,105,156,157,169,172).…”