Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Draw the Shades. In Hull, Que., when townspeople were baffled by a half-blackened street light, police discovered that a homeowner, irritated because the light shone in his bedroom at night, had painted it black with a brush tied to a 16-ft. pole...
Some studies show that public schoolers outdo private-school graduates in top colleges. But only a fraction of public schools turn out students of such high caliber. Some of the brightest graduates (nearly half the top 30%, or 200,000 yearly) do not go to college at all. Too many bright students do not even finish high school. And despite compulsory education, millions of Americans never glance at a book from year to year (only 25% say they do). Some 8,500,000 can barely read...
...tumbled 45%. Among the giants, General Dynamics' earnings dropped from $20 million to $11 million, Boeing's from $20 million to $3,600,000. United Aircraft, one of the bluest chips in the industry, jolted investors by chopping its quarterly dividend from 75^ to 50?, as first-half earnings fell from $22 million to $16 million. Douglas Aircraft, long a darling of Wall Street, landed with a bone-shaking loss of $15,009,920, will probably show a deficit for the year...
...then the other. "The arrangement," says Showboat Manager Peter Lambros, "has been extremely profitable for both of us." With room for only 80 customers, the small cellar club grosses $3.500 a week, and Byrd's popularity is so great that next week he starts a new weekly half-hour TV program over Washington's station WMAL...
Shortly before his death in 1939, Zane Grey wrote to Harper & Bros., his publishers, to say that he had three manuscripts ready for publication. Harper is still publishing them-at the rate of one a year. By the time half a dozen posthumous novels of the early West had appeared, intramural smiles flickered through the book business. How long could Harper keep Grey alive? The explanation, say Harper editors, is really quite simple. Their man was so prolific-writing longhand on a lap board at the rate of 100,000 words a month-that no publisher could have hoped...