Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruble's official exchange rate is four to the dollar, the tourist rate ten to the dollar, and on Russia's active black market in currency the rate sometimes leaps as high...
...statement took in much ground, but it was so. Compared to the days when Brigadier General John J. Pershing chased Pancho Villa across northern Mexico, today's problems are nothing. The Mexicans worry about the effect of cut-rate U.S. cotton surplus sales on its worldwide markets; some U.S. mining outfits fret over Mexican taxes; the sewers of Tijuana hamper ocean bathing near San Diego. And so it goes, trailing into insignificance...
...history, the shelves of industry were finally showing some bare spots. Manufacturing and trade inventories at the end of August stood at $89.4 billion, a decline of $400 million from the previous month. Commerce Department experts predicted that inventories, which had been building up at an annual rate of $9.8 billion in the second quarter, would be cut so sharply that the rate may drop by more than $10 billion in the third quarter. Chiefly because of the depletion in inventories, they expect the gross national product to skid $5 billion in the third quarter, perhaps preventing the G.N.P. from...
...economy has taken some hard body blows. August machine tool orders were down 17.3% to an estimated $52.4 million as manufacturers held off ordering machines until they were sure of having the steel to feed them. Sales of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers dropped $2.2 billion in August to a rate of $59.5 billion. Freight carloadings were only 74% of normal for this time of year. Assessing the situation, the National Association of Purchasing Agents reported that "the steel strike has lasted too long to enable us to avoid serious dislocations in production. Prospects for good business in the immediate months...
Undergraduates will be able to question Administration officials about a possible rate increase at the Student Council-sponsored forum on dining halls next Thursday...