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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Isles to stay. Six companies now produce programs for the commercial channel in competition with the rigorously noncommercial BBC. One of the two leaders, Associated Television Ltd., announced last week that it had made ?4,100,000 ($11.5 million) in its 1957-58 fiscal year-almost ten times its previous year's profit...
...from recession was the sharpest rise in farm income since 1947, the greatest ever without a war. At the end of the second quarter of 1958, farm income had jumped to a seasonally adjusted rate of $13.8 billion annually, a solid $1 billion more than the rate for the previous three months-and a fantastic $3.1 billion more than the $10.7 billion rate of second quarter...
...tests at three previous A.M.A. conventions, no less than 18% of doctors' electrocardiograms proved to be "definitely abnormal or borderline." An equal proportion of chest fluorograms showed definite or suspected abnormalities, including tuberculosis, cancer, or something wrong with the heart or great vessels. Dr. McArthur's prescriptions for fellow doctors: 1) more regular examinations ("An Annual P.E. for Every M.D."), 2) more relaxation, and 3) better organization of the work load, e.g., set aside one morning a week to see only one type of case...
...last general rises in 1956, makers have not changed listed prices. But a lot of secret deals are being made. Said Greenlee Brothers & Co. of Rockford, Ill. (metal and wood working tools): "In the last few weeks we've had more inquiries about orders than in the previous five months. From all the haggling over price, obviously prices are being shaved all around...
Born. To Kirk Douglas (real name: Issur Danielovitch), 41, cinemactor (The Vikings, Paths of Glory, Lust for Life), and Anne Buydens Douglas, 35, onetime pressagent: their second son, second child (he has two more sons by a previous marriage); in Los Angeles. Name: Eric Anthony. Weight...