Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catch up with Good Housekeeping's seal of approval testing program. Indeed, Herb Mayes's plans for McCall's have few limits: he predicts he will overtake the Ladies' Home Journal (circ. 5,685,245), grande dame of the women's magazines, "within less than two years...
Quarters for Corn. Few girls get a break from the jukebox trade these days; the quarters clink in the slot for the grinding corn of Fabian or Frankie Avalon. or the molasses-slow maundering of Johnny Mathis. Lola, who must settle for less, deserves more. She has been learning her trade, scrabbling at the edges of show business, ever since she sang Listen to the Mocking Bird at her home-town Y.W.C.A. in Akron 25 years ago. She was a gawky ten-year-old then, defiant of her parents' dislike of anything that smacked of entertainment. Today...
...size of the enterprise is staggering. From less than 16 million in 1900, enrollment has jumped to 36 million. From less than $215 million in 1900, the annual cost has soared to $14.4 billion (about 3% of the Gross National Product). Of all U.S. families, 40% have one or more children in public school.*Of all living Americans, one out of five is a public-school student...
...high schools because they cost less (no labs or shops needed). The teachers are paid less; the schools are not always citadels of learning. And the problems of combustible half adolescents in the seventh and eighth grades are one of the key blind spots in education...
...Continent. In West Germany, the Adenauer government is plowing ahead with its plan to "reprivatize" a $1 billion industrial empire inherited from the Nazis. Last spring the government sold the giant Preussag mining combine to 216,000 new German stockholders limited to annual incomes of $3,800 or less. In one sweep of a pen, the total number of German stockholders was increased by a third, to around 800,000. Determined to have a competitive private-enterprise economy, the government is now planning to sell off the great Volkswagen works, a steel and iron-ore company, a shipbuilding company...