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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radio also boasted a sizable turnout: ¶Twenty-one million U.S. families listened to some part of the Democratic Convention. Homes tuning in averaged 6 hrs. 1 min. each. During the shorter G.O.P. week the total audience hit 15.6 million homes, for a listening average of 3 hrs. 23 min. per home. ¶Daily audiences ranged from 6.5 million to 13 million homes, averaging 10.2 million homes a day for the Democrats, 8.2 million for the Republicans. ¶Peak radio audiences (4 million) were clocked in during the early afternoon on the opening day of each convention...
Speedup. The slide took place while the economy boomed on-except for farm prices, which edged down ½% from mid-August to mid-September (the third drop in a row). Steel production blazed at 100.6% of capacity. Business outlays for new plant and equipment will hit a $38 billion annual rate in 1956's final quarter v. $31 billion last year. For the auto industry. 1956 would probably turn out to be the third best year on record with production of 6,286,000 units, behind only...
FILTER-TIP BOOM, some 30% of all sales this year, will help push cigarette consumption to alltime record in 1956. After slumping to 368.7 billion smokes in 1954, during cancer scare, says Agriculture Department, consumption climbed back to 382.1 billion last year, will hit estimated 395 billion in 1956, some 900 million better than previous record...
...years, Japan, helped by 350 aid agreements with the U.S., has raised its world export position from 17th to eighth place. By the end of Japan's fiscal year next March, exports, already 50% ahead of last year in dollar .areas, are expected to hit $2.5 billion. Textiles still make up the bulk, but heavy machinery constitutes 31% of the total...
...Stop. Don Murray ropes, brands and corrals expert Comedienne Marilyn Monroe in a rowdy version of William Inge's Broadway hit (TIME, Sept...