I found Terrill Lankford's statement about Ripley as an
accurate representation of the corporate mentality very
articulate. Other noir books on corporate behavior are John
MacDonald's _A Key to the Suite_ , Max Berry's _Jennifer
Government_, and Kenneth Fearing's _The Big Clock_. BTW, The
noir writer Elliott Chaze (_Black Wings Has My Angel_) wrote
one of the first exposes of Big Tobacco, while a journalist
for the Associated Press. His story was based on a study at
Johns Hopkins. Most newspapers, including the NY Times, did
not run the story. Fear of losing advertising revenue from
the tobacco companies. But the AP had sent out a bulletin
warning the papers that Chaze's story was
"controversial." See http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/infact2.html
The year was (cough) 1940.
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