Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were bearish reports, too. The Labor Department announced that in mid-March nearly half of the U.S.'s major employment areas had a "substantial labor surplus," meaning 6% or more of the labor force out of work. And auto sales were creeping along at a rate of 3,500,000 a year, as against 1957 sales of nearly...
...Lutheran Hour, the most widely broadcast sermon on radio (1,209 stations). A campaign of "Preaching. Teaching and Reaching." organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Church, is ringing doorbells and organizing study groups. The Lutherans support 1,460 parochial elementary schools. New congregations are springing up at the rate of one every 54 hours, and there are by latest count, 7,379,819 U.S. Lutherans, nearly 2,000,000 more than ten years...
Back in the era when the loudspeaker was edging out the speakeasy among U.S. pastimes, a pair of second-rate jazz singers stood before a microphone at NBC's WMAQ in Chicago, shifted into heavy Negro dialect, and gave birth to a national institution. Within two years the Amos 'n' Andy show of Freeman Gosden (Amos, Kingfish et al.) and Charles Correll (Andy) was radio's first great popular craze, so captivating that U.S. telephone calls soon fell off 50% between 7 p.m. and 7:15, and movie theaters stopped their films to pipe...
...Schwann Catalog grows at the rate of as many as 400 listings a month. If the growth keeps on accelerating, the brass-eared listener will soon have to give up his sleep to get to the bottom of the pile...
Skip the Change. An automatic change dispenser for cash registers which speeds up supermarket checkouts by 30% was announced by National Cash Register Co. Instead of the usual two or three times that change is counted per transaction (with an average 15% error rate), the new machine registers the change due, tells the clerk how many bills to hand over, send the coins down a chute to the customer. Price...