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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Previously secret fiscal details, produced after an ultimatum from the Commons, showed that the CBC made a profit on only 17 of 102 shows produced during a typical March week. Largest subsidy-wherein only $9,678 of the total cost of $30,132 was paid by sponsors-went to a Canadian version of the longtime U.S. radio and TV Hit Parade show...
...Back home in Goteborg, Sweden's new Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson was whisked from the airport to a local stadium by helicopter, emerged with a boyish grin to walk on a red carpet and display his mighty right hand for 20,000 cheering fans, who paid 40? apiece to greet...
...Home, 27, London jazz piano player who turned adman to win the hand of Sweden's willowy Princess Margaretha but reverted to the piano after the Swedish royal family stalled and his father roared that the Swedes were belittling the British Empire; and Sandra Paul, 18, homegrown, high-paid model; in London...
...realistic and well timed. It was well prepared for a strike; steel customers had enough inventory for seven weeks or more, would still be there as a clamoring market for steel once a strike was over. Steelmen also counted on the fact that U.S. steelworkers, already the highest paid of the Big Three unions, are aware that a wage-and-price boost might bring more inflation to nullify a pay rise, give a boost to foreign competition, and eventually cost jobs in the mills. The most remarkable point of a new Gallup poll out this week is not that...
...fell from $13.5 million to $8.1 million within two years, not because of Italy's steel-production gains but because other nations made better offers. Great Britain bought 450,000 tons of U.S. sheet-steel exports for her auto industry in the mid-19505, but the price she paid caused shudders in the industry; she has now cut her U.S. sheet imports to 100,000 tons. U.S. steel has been virtually cut out of South Africa, is slipping in Argentina, where imports from Japan and West Germany are taking over...