Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since, Communist Gomulka has been trying vainly to lure the peasants back into what his government calls "cooperatives." Biggest lures: fat, long-term loans to any group that wants to socialize itself; cut-rate machinery and fertilizer, plus state money to buy livestock and state land if needed. As a result, 499 collectives were formed in 1958-but in the same year 470 were dissolved. Typical example: five farmers near Warsaw announced that they intended to form a cooperative farm. The government lent them funds to buy pigs and offered land to raise them on. Starting with eight brood...
...Japan, where 23,500 people killed themselves last year, and the suicide rate increases by 5% a year, Candy Salesman Akira Emoto, 31. was long regarded as a candidate for the statistics column. He brooded, he ate sleeping pills and last summer he tried to poison himself. "Just you wait." he told friends in the southern city of Kokonoe, "very soon I shall do something that will startle the nation...
...sending the venerable shows down the drain along with a clutch of other programs. Reason: CBS is trying to save what is left of its radio network by severe retrenchment. Says CBS Radio's President Arthur Hull Hayes: "Ever since 1954, we have been losing money at the rate of a few million dollars a year. But so has every other radio network, some losing more than...
...Railway Express costs $12.26 v. $4.60 on a private trucking line.) The agency's traffic declined from 193.1 million shipments in 1947 to 73.5 million in 1957, and the downtrend continued in 1958. Revenues dwindled from $428 million in 1947 to $358 million in 1957 despite eleven rate increases...
Longitude Roulette. Anderson and the crew of the Nautilus began to rate their jobs in the summer of '57 when, in effect, they painstakingly eliminated in advance some of the hazards that might have tragically marred "Operation Sunshine" the following year. They cruised some 1,400 miles under the polar ice but were trapped more than once in sandwich-close quarters between the massive roof of ice (which on the 1957 trip extended as much as 100 ft. below the surface) and the shallow ocean floor. Once, Anderson nosed his sub to the seemingly ice-free surface but jarred...