Word: ratings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Democrats still owe $467,000 in 1956 campaign obligations. The national committee is living beyond its means at the rate of more than $86,000 so far this year, and Paul Butler has made no major move to reduce expenses. Neither has Philadelphia Multimillionaire (construction) Matt McCloskey, the party treasurer, who shares with Butler the responsibility and the blame for fund-raising and budgeting. The two men are no longer on speaking terms-and the party's indebtedness continues to spiral upward. The sleek party house organ, Democratic Digest, continues to pile up a $70,000-$80,000 annual...
...rate of 2,000 an hour, motorists rolled onto the motorway on its first day, and went weaving and swerving across the unfamiliar lanes in a spine-chilling display of what police later called "bad traffic-lane discipline." Fast drivers jockeyed at speeds that reached 120 m.p.h. Slowpoke trucks and antique autos clung stolidly to lanes reserved for fast traffic. Scores of cars, not up to the pace or to the handling they got, gasped to a halt-as often as not on the pavement-with burst tires, smoking engines or empty fuel tanks. In the first five hours there...
...mediocre imagination, too much shoddy programing, too much imitation of established formulas (there are some 35 cowpokes on TV this year, 62 gumshoes). Such is the dearth of quality that the considerable number of competent shows are often gratefully hailed as excellent, and the handful of really first-rate programs are greeted as virtually miraculous...
...week existence, Quincy House has received praise for its construction--of the $4.7 million new part. By contrast, Mather Hall, beautiful in its day, has now become second-rate. Without such "necessities" as elevators, private study-bedrooms, or large plate glass windows, the 27-year-old building holds little appeal. Quincy students consequently do not relish the thought of moving into Mather when this facility officially becomes part of Quincy next fall...
While the gap between American and Russion consumption remains huge, Soviet industry is not so far behind that of the United States. Since 1951, Bergson relates, its output has been increasing at a rate of nine per cent annually, about three times quicker than American growth...