Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first move in this direction was to increase the cost from ten dollars flat fee for an unlimited number of tests to five dollars registration fee and eight dollars for each test. The new rate takes effect this year, but the tests already cost between thirty and fifty dollars apiece to administer and grade...
...spot where there are no fewer than 64 crossbreeds of humans, is less worrisome than that in the U.S. South; Hawaii's intensely loyal 185,000 Japanese sent thousands of their sons to war after Pearl Harbor, and they won a proud record. Bolstered by a high literacy rate, steady solvency (U.S. tax revenues for fiscal 1958: $166 million), a dedicated interest in government (average turnout at the polls: 90% v. 60% mainland presidential peak), the fabled land of polysyllabic kings, brown-skinned women and languorous beauty-supercharged with its brilliant mosaic of cultures-has now opened the door...
...Banner" Price Hike: "We're not apologizing for the rate increase. We don't recall that our favorite grocer knocked himself out explaining when our favorite 46-oz. can of tomato juice jumped from 19? two years ago to 36? as of today. There's nothing prohibitive about $4 a year for a home-town newspaper. That's about 7½ ? a copy. About half our readers loll around coffee shops swilling from four to twelve cups of 10? coffee every day. They shouldn't squawk about paying the price of one cup of coffee...
...still failing to react to the gains in the rest of the economy. So the latest figures from the Commerce and Labor departments showed last week. The jobless in February rose 25,000, to 4,749,000, while employment also increased 16,000, to 62,722,000. The rate of unemployment, seasonally adjusted, rose from 6% of the labor force, where it has stood so far this year, to 6.1%. Ordinarily, so small a change would be discounted; it could be a statistical error. What worried economists was the failure of employment to chalk up the seasonal rise that usually...
...Three's entrance into its field. Said President George Romney: "We expect the Big Three to follow Rambler into the field of compact cars for the simple reason that this is the real growth part of the market. If they do, compact-car sales should reach an annual rate of 3,000,000 units by 1963. The upheaval that is in evidence in the automobile market is the signal for the end of big-car sales dominance in the U.S. The compact car will soon take over the leadership...