Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters. Arkansas' Mills had an announcement of key importance: pending a final vote this week, the committee had informally approved the Eisenhower Administration's five-year extension of the reciprocal-trade program, with authority for the President to cut tariffs by an additional 25% at the top rate of 5% a year...
Last winter, as the U.S. was slipping into recession, President Eisenhower described the whole thing as "a breather.'! Writing out a speech for delivery this week to the American Management Association in Manhattan, Ike noted that the rate of decline was slowing down, reported his verdict on the economy: "We have about caught our breath...
...starting an excursion. The best way to trigger its action is to combine a pad of material containing uranium with a layer of high-melting solder. When the neutrons in the reactor rise above a critical level, showing that an excursion has started, the uranium fissions at a rate that creates enough heat to melt the solder. Then high-pressure gas will shoot neutron-absorbing poison into the reactor. Even if other controls have failed, this last-ditch nuclear fire extinguisher will keep the reactor from exploding or melting itself into radioactive...
...when Harrison announced he was chucking the whole business. The price? "Just say that it was enough," sighed Harrison, who is still beset by libel suits totaling $28 million. The new owners: a syndicate headed by cocky Hy Steirman, 36, who claims, "I've edited 1,000 second-rate magazines." Steirman announced plans to slip his new properties some pep pills. "The new Confidential won't look under beds, but it won't avoid a hot story either. Harrison had a homemade atomic cannon, but he just aimed it at one spot -Hollywood. There are other places...
...Forces. The human body can stand travel at any rate of speed provided that it is constant. What hurts is a too-abrupt change in speed or direction. Standard of measurement for such changes is the g (from gravity), which is equal to the acceleration produced by the earth's pull at sea level. Unprotected and in normal sitting position, the body cannot stand more than about 3½ g for more than about 15 seconds. Semisupine, even without a pressure suit, it can stand 6 g for 4½ minutes, as much as 12 g for only...