Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illegal commercial broadcasts (Belgium's official radio network is state-owned and noncommercial) are nourishing because of a genial conspiracy between the broadcasters and listeners. Handwritten program listings are passed around in country inns, whipped out of sight whenever a stranger appears. For a five-franc (11?) charge, the innkeeper will forward a record request accompanied by a romantic or spiteful message...
Like a crapehanger whose predicted misfortune has finally come to pass, U.S. steelmen felt a certain grim satisfaction. When President Truman demanded expansion of steel capacity five months ago (TIME, Jan. 17), steelmen answered that the proposal was nonsense. The postwar demand for steel, they said, would soon overtake itself. Last week it began to look...
...Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Corp., shut down five of its Pittsburgh open-hearth furnaces for lack of orders. In Cleveland, Republic Steel Corp. closed one of its blast furnaces. As orders for specialty steels slacked off, Lukens Steel Co. laid off 150 men. This week, for the first time in 1949, steel output will fall below last year's rate for the same week (94.1% of capacity...
...free advice with a dramatic and not entirely disinterested proposal. He offered to take over his competitors-National, Delta, Capital, Chicago & Southern, and Colonial Airlines -and handle all their domestic air mail at Eastern's "non-subsidy" rate of 60/ to 65^ per ton mile (v. the five lines' average which he figured at $4.45 last year). *The difference, said Rick, would save the taxpayers $10 million a year...
...Territory of Hawaii, people of Asiatic descent make up almost half the islands' 540,000 population. But in the tight little islands' economy, dominated by the sugar-factoring "Big Five," they have had little chance to get rich-until Ruddy Fah Tongg came along. Ruddy showed them...