Word: columns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...housewife cleaning her husband's den-tidying trends, sorting statistics, and issuing no-nonsense judgments as wholesome and tart as mince pie. With such forthright energy, the New York Post's Sylvia Porter has made herself the most widely quoted financial writer in the U.S. Her column, "Your Dollar," is studied by Wall Street brokers, Washington economists, Chicago bankers and budget-conscious families from coast to coast. Under the impact of the recession, "Your Dollar's" syndication has almost doubled in the past year, is now printed in 220 papers...
...another column, she disparaged the fears of the fainthearted that the decline in automobile sales meant a shrinkage in the U.S. middle-income market. Plowing through Department of Commerce statistics that few businessmen consult, she showed that the proportion of middle-income families has risen from 37% in 1947 to 43% in 1957. "What does it all mean? It means that one of the greatest economic social revolutions of all time-the surging growth in America of a mass middle-income class-is still going on. It means that industry should be placing more, not less, stress on the middle...
...gold for pounds, purchased British bonds, brought them back to the U.S., turned them into dollars for a pretty profit. With this practical experience behind her, Sylvia in 1935 persuaded the Post to hire her as a financial reporter. Three years later the Post warily gave her a column under the byline S. F. Porter, and did not let her affirm her sex until 1942, when S. F. was changed to Sylvia...
...last July, she heard businessmen moaning about cutbacks in reinvestment plans and the chances of an ensuing dip in the economy, sat down the next afternoon in her grab-bag office at the Post and pounded out one of the first stories predicting the onset of the recession. Other columns come from her own frustrations. When her vacuum cleaner, television set and iron all broke down in a single day, she wrote a scathing column blaming planned obsolescence-and got 500 supporting letters from readers. A product of the '30s, she readily admits that she leans toward pump-priming...
...spring of 1931 a sophomore named Harry Levin won first place in the Bowdoin Prize Contest for his essay entitled "The Broken Column." The following fall, Levin's essay, along with three other theses, were published by the Harvard University Press under a grant by Herbert Nathan Straus...