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Here are the facts. As you state, the BBC staff interviews 3,000 individuals each day (once a day). Nielsen Radio-Television Index, on the other hand, uses Audimeters (automatic electronic recorders) installed in typical homes throughout the U.S. to obtain an accurate record of radio and TV listening from about 2,200 receivers used by some 1,600 families-amounting to more than 5,000 individuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...total annual expenditure for Nielsen Radio-TV Index services is about $2,600,000 -which compares with [the BBC] figure of approximately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

There is a clause in the contract authorizing immediate opening of wage talks when the cost of living index reaches 165. That index, as figured by the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries, stood at 163.6 on October 15, as compared with 163.2 on September 15 and 160 when the contract was signed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUERA May Strike for 10-Cent Increase in Pay | 10/27/1950 | See Source »

...Industrial production in September pushed the Federal Reserve Board's index up five points to a peacetime peak of 213, highest since June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Measure | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...arms program begins to cut into the civilian economy in the next six months. The economy, which had been close to its postwar peak when the Korean war began, was showing an amazing ability to keep right on growing and handling the new burdens. Last week the industrial index hit an estimated 212, an 8% increase in output in the last three months. Since production is the only real preventive of inflation, it looked as if those who were calling for all-out wage & price controls and tight restrictions on how and what industry should produce were being frightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: How High the Sky? | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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