Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beauty of radio-therapy, lies not only in its more favorable rate of cure over the customary surgery, but in its simplicity...
...after the MTA had been in operation for a year, the transit deficit was $9,000,000--an increase of $4,000,000 over the previous year's loss; and this month, the deficit is increasing at the rate of $40 per minute. In the reorganization, the State disregarded many other financial and organizational disabilities besides the stock issue that the company had incurred in its twenty years of corrupt management...
...State also overlooked a score of miscellaneous inefficiencies. The Metropolitan District Obligation, a publicly owned bond issue that had been paying an exorbitant interest rate for thirty years was not refinanced; the antiquated system of depreciation was never changed; and the cities and towns with MTA track running through them never reimbursed the MTA for snow removal. Probably $6,000,000 of the deficit is represented in these and the many other small bookkeeping complexities that permeated the old El accounting...
Nobody expected a pickup soon. In spite of the Ford strike, new cars were rolling out of Detroit at a rate of more than 5,000,000 a year. Some new car dealers were feeling a sag in their own sales (Kaiser-Frazer Corp. this week reported a $5.8 million loss in the first quarter). They were once more offering bigger trade-in allowances than they could get for the used cars. By summer's end, some of 1949's new cars would be showing up on used-car lots, to add to the glut. Both...
Expected Swipe. Exactly what this story means each reader may decide for himself; like much genuinely first-rate fiction, it allows for a variety of interpretations because it reverberates with many possible meanings. But no reader is likely to doubt that it will soon find a place as a minor classic in the American short story, a ruthless fable about the human soul that might have come out of Hawthorne...