Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the prospect that this attentive audience would soon reach major proportions, advertisers who have been hanging back have hastily changed their minds. The monthly Television reported that the number of TV sponsors at latest count was 374, up nearly 60% in a year. By fall, Young & Rubicam expects to be handling more television than radio shows in New York City. In urging its own clients to buy television time, Lennen & Mitchell warned: "It is quickly becoming a case of jump in or be left...
...Canada's CCF socialists, although they still had their leader, Schoolmasterish Major J. Coldwell, had already called a national convention Aug. 19 to furbish up a new platform. This will be their tenth convention...
Mozart: Quartet in 6 Major, K.387 (Griller String Quartet, English Decca, 8 sides). One of Mozart's greatest; the performance lacks the fire to make it great. Recording: good. Concerto in A Major, K.488 (Clifford Curzon, pianist, with the National Symphony Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). Another great work, played by one of Britain's best pianists. In this dull, muffled recording, however, it sounds as if his piano were out in the wings...
...expected the steel industry raised prices on its major products last week. U.S. Steel Corp. set the pace with an average boost of $9.34 a ton, and most other steelmakers followed with about the same amount. The increases will add an estimated $575 million a year to the U.S. steel bill, and send up the prices of durable goods all along the line. First to speak up were appliance makers, who predicted substantial price hikes for ranges, refrigerators, washing machines, etc., within four weeks. Yet many an industry, notably the automakers, had hardly finished raising prices to meet the third...
...which, thanks to rate increases, were by & large chuffing along from slim profits into fat ones. For example, Baltimore & Ohio, with a half-year net of about $9,000,000, was up 73%. The Denver, Rio Grande & Western, with a net of $3,583,395, was up 260%. A major exception was Robert R. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio (see below), whose profits were nipped a third by the mine stoppage. Even the small, potato-hauling Bangor & Aroostook, which had not made money in any June since 1935, showed a profit of about $20,000 last month...