Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rojas regime's extravagance and the estimated $70 million sag in coffee income this year. The junta made a start by imposing what Colombian businessmen call "organized recession," including severe import restrictions on everything from toothpaste to typewriters. The cost of living is still climbing at a rate of 20% a year, and Lleras warns that if coffee prices are not stabilized, "this country may explode...
...about 5,000,000 fans - along with happy NBC executives, satisfied advertisers and fellow entertainers whom his show helped to success - think that Jack Paar should be precisely what he is: a first-rate, refreshingly different TV performer who in a single year has come out of nowhere and made a huge hit of a special kind of entertainment. What Paar brings into American living rooms five nights a week is both more and less than a comedy, variety or chatter show - it is a special show business blend that Paartisans consider uniquely satisfying...
Lately Saigon newspapers, alarmed at the rot mortality rate, have urged parents to drive their children less harshly, play down the necessity of remaining daus. Educators argue that much of the blame for failures must be laid to crowded classrooms and ill-educated teachers. Happily for future rots, the government is planning alternatives to suicide: vocational schools and schools for social service...
...Federal Reserve Board reported that department store sales for the previous week were running 3% above the 1957 level. Adding to recent gains in manufacturing employment and hours, the Big Three automakers announced plans to recall 182,000 workers to work on the 1959 models. And though the rate of inventory cutback continued in June at a much slower rate, the nation's retailers actually increased their inventories-the first increase by any sector of business...
...better than Governments (see chart), the sharp decline in U.S. bonds was pushing up the cost of money for Sears and other prospective private borrowers. As the price of Government bonds fell, their yields rose sharply. Last week a recent issue of long-term Government bonds paying a coupon rate of 3¼% was actually yielding more than 3⅝%. A recent issue of relatively short-term bonds with a 2⅝% coupon was yielding...