Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as between purebred dogs, the government draws a class line. Watchdogs which stay outside the house and bark are taxed at the rate of 10 forints (84?) a month; but watchdogs which stay inside the house and bark are taxed 70 forints a month...
...Labor Party. Bustamante's unions had sagged from 75,000 to 45,000 members. Manley's anti-Communist People's National Party was openly boasting that it would sweep Busta out of office in next year's elections, and Manley himself seemed to rate high with the British Labor government's Colonial Office...
...trying, This Week magazine has finally passed it in ad revenues. In 1948, according to figures out last week, This Week carried $16,695,628 worth of ads to the Weekly's $16,466,061. (At $24,900 for a four-color page, This Week's ad rate topped all U.S. magazines.*) The Weekly still led in circulation with 9,410,561 copies, but This Week was less than 550,000 behind...
...Steel's net for 1948 was $90.3 million, up 76.8%, but the company cut no extra share of the dividend pie. Armco Steel, with a 28% increase in its profit to $32 million, boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half the current market price of its stock. Even tiny Barium Steel, which had never paid a dividend, declared one of 10% in stock...
Full time summer students will receive credit for a half term with a tuition charge of $50 per eight week course and $40 for the abbreviated six week courses. The Union will serve meals Monday through Friday only at the rate of $10.25 a week...