Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy won Time magazine's epithet, "a Boston Brahmin with a brain;" and in April, 1941 his urging that convoys accompany supply ships crossing the Atlantic was but an example of his acute perception of naval problems. When heeded, his plan proved successful in cutting down the high mortality rate of cargo vessels...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist...
...billion for the greatest growth in any decade in U.S. history. To U.S. consumers, the growth will mean $355 billion available in disposable income to spend on goods and services in 1965. Five years after that, in 1970, the well-heeled consumer will be spending at the rate of $436 billion a year-a sum equal to the entire U.S. gross national product last year...
Auto-Trip Insurance. To give motorists trip insurance as convenient as airline flight insurance, Charlotte, N.C. Businessmen Walter Shapiro and Morris Speizman thought up Insuratrip, Inc. Motorists seeing an Insuratrip sign at gas stations dial a designated local agent's telephone number, buy coverage at the rate of 25? per $2,500 per day, up to $25,000, deposit coins in a coin box placed close to the telephone. The policy itself is mailed to the insured's beneficiary by the agent. In operation only since December, Insuratrip now does business in four eastern states, has applied...
...Dean pointed out the "extraordinarily rapid increase" in the ability of entering students, despite the lack of overall improved academic performance. With large numbers of high-quality rate applicants, the "academic center of gravity of the class has been raised" since most of the bottom quarter has been eliminated. The Class of '62 is "the ablest ever," he commented...