Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admissions committees often use confidential information in their work, he added. An applicant may be rejected because of a private report on his character written by a principal or headmaster...
...This report is intended just for the admissions committee. It we had to show it to investigating committees, we would lose the confidence of the principals who write them...
...weeks; the Tribune had it there for only ten weeks. One reason, said S.R.L., is that the lists are based "on figures obtained from relatively few stores in relatively few cities . . . without reference to the most elementary rules of statistical sampling." The Herald Tribune, said S.R.L., gets its reports from 67 stores in 50 cities (actually, says the Trib, 60 to 80 stores report each week), but Macy's, one of the biggest U.S. book retailers, is not even represented. (Neither are the book clubs.) The Times listed reports from "leading booksellers" in 22 cities (coincidentally, this week...
There were complaints from the Army & the Navy that Pan Am's expenses and accident rate ran too high and that it sometimes gave its own cargoes priority over theirs. But a report by MATS, the combined Army-Navy transport services, this month summed up: "The importance of P.A.A. bases established before the war to the success of the South Atlantic ferrying and transport route cannot be overestimated...
Pink of Condition. In 1949, the network that Juan Trippe built is one of the healthiest in the industry. Last week, releasing its 1948 financial report, Pan American estimated its net income at $4,590,000 (nearly 50% above its 1947 net), on $145,216,000 worth of business, including $32 million in mail...