Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dayton, Ohio began a work-relief program, the first since WPA days. Already 50 people were being paid $1 an hour for leaf-raking and weed-cutting in the city's parks, and applications were coming in at the rate of ten a day. City Welfare Director E. V. Stoecklein blamed it all on factory layoffs of unskilled labor...
Transformation. By last week the Davis movement was receiving letters at the rate of 400 a day. From Savoy, in the southeast, a hysterical woman wrote: "I think you must be Christ returned." A Courbevoie worker wrote: "This is our last hope." Recently Garry Davis filled the Salle Pleyel and the Velodrome d'Hiver, two big auditoriums in Paris, with cheering thousands-crowds such as only Charles de Gaulle, and possibly Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, could attract. His committee of support includes Albert Einstein, who cabled that "only the unbendable will of the people can free the forces which...
Dropping bombs from a satellite would present problems. Ordinary bombs released from the bomb bay would merely follow along the orbit like smaller satellites. They would have to be shot downward to increase their falling rate and allow them to catch up with the curving surface of the earth. Shooting them backward would have a similar effect. If they were shot backward at a speed equal to the satellite's forward speed on its orbit, they would stand still in space for an instant. Then they would fall vertically toward the earth. The whole satellite could be brought down...
...some, in powdered form, in the party's smorgas, popular with Finns as well as Swedes. The results were sensational. Within 10 to 45 minutes, whether they had drunk beer, wine or hard liquor, the guests had splitting headaches and were vomiting. Their blood pressure and pulse rate shot up. It became the worst lost weekend any of them had ever known; twelve landed in a hospital; several almost died...
...Other Side of Profits. "In what way?" shot back Wilson. "It's rotten business. It only makes 1.2% net." G.E.'s rate of profit on civilian goods-7.2% on $1.3 billion in sales-was not enough, said Wilson, to pay for expansion and to protect G.E. against a sudden sales slump...