Word: chart
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state and progress of American missilery. With that done, the new urgency was written in the skies in the rocket's red glare. It was a week that made missile history, and a week that pointed up the successful investment of vast sums of money (see chart) in the missile program since Ike came into office. Items...
...Presley disk hit second place on Billboard's authoritative top-tunes listing in its second week on the chart, and by last week Victor claimed to have shipped 2,000,000 copies (total Presley sales of single disks so far: a staggering 28 million). The movie-bred lyrics of Jailhouse Rock (see CINEMA) suggests a powerful argument for penal reform, but no clues to the record's whopping success...
...typical sponsor wants results on a sales chart, and employs rating services which assure him that the viewers are getting his message. "Spectaculars" are one result of this. A light children's tale such as "Pinocchio" is transformed into a tasteless extravaganza punctuated with wisecracks. Another result is to force a comedian such as Sid Caesar, with reasonably esoteric appeal, off the air. Public service programs also suffer. ABC-TV was the only network to cover the recent Senate Labor Investigations; the other two networks had too many commercial commitments to do so. Because there is no ABC station...
Berlin to Baghdad. In their thrusting enthusiasm to take Erhard's advice, West German enterprisers have kept boosting the country's gross national product at an annual rate about twice that of the U.S. (see chart). Unemployment has effectively vanished, workers' real wages today have advanced 60% since 1950. By 1955 steel output reached 2,000,000 tons a month, topping that of the Reich and establishing Germany as Europe's foremost producer and the world's third (after the U.S. and U.S.S.R...
...issues at the same time that-with small talk and small children, dinner-party fiascos and marital spats-it humanizes the atmosphere. What it does not do-what a message play so seldom can do-is to create flesh-and-blood characters who really seem to shape and chart their own lives...