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In a half-page ad in the Wellesley, Mass. Townsman, Roger Babson, noted for his goatee and his dire predictions, said: “Boston will be destroyed by the atom bomb. . . .The United Nations has not the power to prevent such until it is made over into a real World Government . . . we know that the American people will never vote to do so until . . . after our large coastal cities have been ruined.”
Purpose of the ad: to sell the special monthly “Atomic Service” of Babson’s Reports, Inc., which promised to help clients to “invest in companies which have little invested in such cities.” Instead of new clients, Babson got a storm of protest from Boston businessmen.
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