Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governors could afford to be cool because state unemployment-compensation treasuries, constantly replenished by payroll taxes, are still well filled. With a record $320 million drain in February, the total pool decreased by only $173 million, leaving a huge balance of $8.2 billion. Despite gubernatorial coolness, the Administration will probably move ahead with some sort of plan expanding unemployment compensation. At the same time, it will continue speeding the flow of federal money into the economy. Last week the President ordered Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert Cole to speed up the spending and lending of about $650 million...
...indiscriminate listener with brass ears, plenty of time on his hands and a normal yen for sleep, could sit down ber fore his hi-fi set and work through the whole literature of LP-recorded sound (as far as generally available in the U.S.) in roughly 3½ years. To keep him up to date, he would want a 204-page catalog published monthly by William Schwann of Boston. In the ten years since LPs started flooding the market, the Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog has become a fascinating indication of music consumption in the vinyl era. Last week...
...with last year. Businessmen count on their growing market, lower labor costs and the efficient new plants built by migrating Northern industry to carry them through the recession without harm. "I take a real deep breath of relief." says Southern Co. President Harlee Branch Jr., whose company still has record demand for electric power, "when I get away from those damned pessimistic New Yorkers...
...TOURIST SPENDING will top last year's record $1.9 billion. American Express reports 660,000 Americans will visit Europe alone-10% more than in 1957-and hotel bookings are running as much as 50% ahead. Paris expects 420,000 dollar-laden American visitors, Brussels 400,000 (thanks to world's fair), Rome 313,300, London 300,000, Amsterdam and Madrid 210,000 each...
...Amateur. In Norfolk, Mass., two lifers on the state prison debating team continued a three-year undefeated record-against such opponents as Oxford, Cambridge, M.I.T., Harvard-when they took the affirmative on the question "Bank Robbing Is Too Easy," downed the debating team of McGill University...