Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touring all over the world (one in the U.S.). Indians, who had never seen a major ice show in their country before, fell for it like novices on their first pair of single-runners. Even the anti-U.S. Shanker's Weekly called it "stupendous," argued that "good American show business is worth more than guns and butter." Delhi's citizens jammed the 8,000-seat theater nightly. Among the spectators: Prime Minister Nehru...
...examples of what TV -"a malevolent juggernaut that's gonna chew me up"-will no longer let him do, he muscularly cited some unusual themes: a woman relieving anxiety over menopause by "throwing a pass" at one of her son's friends; the emotional pattern of an American Communist; the tortures of a man discovering that he is a homosexual. (Cracked Shaw: "But you could try a TV western with a homosexual horse...
Melanesian tom-toms, Benin bronzes, a footstool in the shape of a kneeling woman, a dog-shaped bowl, and African, American Indian and South Sea Island idols by the score comprised a wild little dream world within the Fine Arts' staid galleries of European pictures. Most exciting finds were the small gold ornaments from pre-Columbian
...industrial output edged up another point to 138% of the 1947-49 average, 9% above the recession low. With unemployment still dropping between September and October, consumers stepped up their buying in the nation's department stores by 2% over a year ago. And steel production, reported the American Iron and Steel Institute, rose to the highest level in a year, with production of about 8,816,000 tons in October v. 7,610,372 in September...
...favorite guessing game on Wall Street these days is figuring how high the industrials would be if American Telephone & Telegraph had not been substituted in 1939 for International Business Machines. Since then, IBM has gone up from 191 to 5.588, counting splits and stock dividends, while A.T. & T. has gone only from 165 to 200%. Harold Clayton of Hemphill, Noyes calculates that the average would now be at 1830, and other experts figure it at 910. All used different short-cut computations. To get the correct figure, it would be necessary to recompute the Dow-Jones average for every market...