Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counter the circulation of the flamboyant Star, Publisher McCullagh would need a big pattern. In twelve years as publisher of the Globe & Mail, he had added only 21,697 to the circulation he started with. In the same period, the highflying Star had caught 121,059 new subscribers; even the slow-poking Telegram had gained 42,290. The figures did not faze bellicose George. Said he: "The smart talk will soon be about the waning Star...
...once admitted, "a period piece." He would never buy a car, had a neurotic fear of cities, disliked much modern poetry ("Has T. S. Eliot ever written three consecutive lines of poetry in his life?"). His own affection lay in the past -the whole past of English literature and all the men & women who had made it. "Literature is, I repeat, memorable speech recording memorable thoughts and deeds . . ." For Q, it was life itself...
What ails Britain's George VI? All public engagements would be canceled "over a period of some months." The official bulletins had been medically vague. But at week's end it was learned that the King suffers from a variation of Buerger's disease,* mostly affecting his right foot. Other more frightening names for it: presenile gangrene, thrombo-angiitis obliterans...
Productivity. Before World War II U.S. workers produced 2.8 times as much per man-hour as British workers. So the International Labor Office in Geneva reported, following a survey of 32 industries for the period 1935-39. In agriculture and transportation, productivity was about the same in both countries. The U.S. productive edge was highest in automobiles, radios, tires, tin cans, etc., where the "scope of automatic machines is great...
Goal is to get competition underway either by reading period or by the beginning of the spring term, Hutchinson stated. Adolph Samborski, director of intramural athletics, has promised Hutchinson that if successful, the league will be made a part of next year's Straus Cup competition...