Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report was not so much a rise and a fall as a direction: for the first time since the economy's sag set in nearly a year ago, the U.S. Government was able to report last week that unemployment had dropped at more than the usual seasonal rate. In a joint release, the Commerce and Labor Departments announced a May unemployment total of 4,904,000, down 216.-000 from April. The unemployment percentage shrank from 7.5% of the labor force to 7.2%, and total employment rose to 64,061,000, showing a better-than-seasonal jump...
...Navy christened her Independence. The Navy's provisional date for commissioning Independence: some time in January. She will be powered by turbines producing 250,000 h.p., is figured to reach a top speed of nearly 35 knots, will carry 100 planes and launch them at the rate of eight a minute, be manned by a crew of more than 4,000. Total cost of the carrier without aircraft: $200 million...
...bottom, the problems rest on two statistics. World consumption of coffee is increasing an average 500,000 bags a year; production, ballooned by a worldwide planting spree during the Korean war, is increasing at the annual rate of 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 bags. Hardest hit is the world's No. 1 producer, Brazil, which last year earned 61% of its foreign exchange by exporting 14.3 million bags* worth $935 million. This year, with much of the world's coffee selling for less than Brazil's rigidly fixed prices, the most optimistic export prediction...
...academic side of this school school community is growing in importance for the students, if only because of college pressure. School records indicate that more pupils are choosing heavier electives in math and science and are deciding to work at the rate of five major subjects a year instead of four. The percentage achieving "honor role" standing has increased from 25-30 per cent about 15 years ago to 40-45 percent today...
Teachers' colleges are, by and large, farcical diploma mills churning out second-rate instructors on a conveyer belt of picayune courses--motion picture camera projection, physical education, fingerpainting. And because their facade is so widely realized, they attract primarily the aimless high school graduate with no particular talents and less interest in any profession. Staffed and stocked by this brand of mediocrity, education will continue to devolve...