Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time to sound off without going through administrative channels, the New York City Board of Education heard some gloomy news about the state of the city's secondary education. Teacher morale, said six principals of academic high schools, has reached an alltime low while pupil insolence has hit a record high. Not only must the teacher cope with proven delinquents because there are not facilities enough to handle them; he must also take in a host of virtual nonreaders from the lower schools. Said Principal John McNeill of Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School: "We are shocked...
...alltime favorite. In Japan it is called Sutaadasuto, and is one number record stores are not afraid to overorder. In England, where professionals call it a "gone evergreen," no song has sold more copies. In the U.S. it is called Stardust, and is the nation's most durable hit-comfortable as an old shoe, and yet rare as a glass slipper...
...spite of its present success, the company never forgets the catastrophe that hit the birds in 1942. A warm current called El Niño* crept down the coast of Peru. It drove the anchovetas away and starved millions of guano birds. Next time, the company intends to have a chain of walled-off peninsulas all the way to Chile. Then the birds can fly south by easy hops, and escape death-dealing...
...mail-order sales were almost 13% ahead of last year. On a nationwide basis, the Securities & Exchange Commission reported that both sales and profits in the second quarter reached new peaks. Sales were an even $70 billion, some $2 billion more than the 1953 record, while net profits hit some $3.9 billion, nearly $200 million better than 1950's record...
...urge manufacturers to tone down their increasing emphasis on more and more horsepower and higher and higher speed," said the American Automobile Association recently. Last week, as more and more of 1956's new models hit the showrooms, there was little indication that the automakers were paying attention to A.A.A.'s horsepower fear. Plymouth announced a 200 h.p. "Hy-Fire V8" to match Ford's 202 h.p. "Thunderbird V-8"; Dodge and Mercury were boosted to 225-230 h.p., while Chrysler and Lincoln were up to 285 h.p., with most of General Motors still to come. Horsepowers...