Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more frequent than at any time since the War. Rare in the boom years of 1917-18 and 1928, they were more than twice as frequent in the 1932 depression as in the 1921 depression. In 1934, after Hitler's rise, they "occurred at the amazingly high rate of once in every column inch of advertising matter-five times as frequent as in 1932." Until 1934 "one of the great New York papers"† banned the specification, but today "Christian" appears once in every 6½ column-inches, "Anglo-Saxon" once every 29. Another paper runs "Christian" once every...
...Miami's Orange Bowl, under a hot sun, an undefeated, untied Tennessee team, which most experts rate second to Texas Christian, showed that it deserved its reputation by drubbing a praiseworthy Oklahoma eleven, undefeated Big Six champions...
Loyalists claimed that General Martinez Anido. Insurgent Minister for Public Order, had been stabbed. Rightist sources said he had influenza. At any rate he died. At 9 p.m. curfew was ordered in the Insurgent capital...
First the railroads asked for a 15% freight-rate rise. ICC said 5.3% was enough. Then they asked for a 15% wage cut. Franklin Roosevelt's Railway Fact-Finding Board said No. This left the railroads, stretched between the engine of rising costs and the caboose of lagging traffic, with no recourse but legislative aid. So Mr. Roosevelt asked three railroad officials and three railroad labor officers to prepare proposals for Congress...
Last week the six railroaders echoed the Splawn recommendations for repeal of land-grant freight rates for Government traffic, creation of a Transport Board to supervise all transport, creation of a special railroad court to handle reorganizations, loosening of RFC purse strings, and relieving ICC of the necessity of certifying that roads borrowing from RFC are not in need of reorganization. Only major additions were pleas for a flexible rate structure adaptable to changing business conditions, for equal taxes on competing forms of transport, for terminating ICC sponsorship of consolidations...