Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nights a week, around dinnertime, the TV sets in some 3,916,000 U.S. homes* are tuned to a 15-minute news program, NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report. Although CBS's Doug Edwards commands a slightly larger audience, no other television newscast has collected more major awards (seven in all) or has tried Report's distinctive formula: two newscasters of equal rank, working from different cities as a team...
...ORDERS worth $40 million were placed by Capital Airlines for seven Convair 880s and five Lockheed Electra turboprops, to begin service in mid-1960. To place orders, Capital arranged to stretch out payments of $37 million owed for its 57 Vickers Viscount turboprops...
...WORLD JET service was started by Pan American with new long-range Boeing 707 Intercontinentals. Jet flying time from New York around the world to Los Angeles will be about 38 hours v. 66 hours on piston-engine planes. Actual elapsed time will be just over two days v. seven days when globe-girdling air service was started...
Underlying the SEC's new problems is the fantastic growth of the U.S. stock market. From a value of $34 billion when the SEC began, stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange are now worth nearly $350 billion. In the past seven years alone, the number of shareholders has doubled from 6,000,000 to 12,500,000. New corporate issues, which amounted to only about $400 million in the 1930s, now total more than $16 billion annually...
Whatever its shortcomings, Poems is a significant literary event. Culled mainly from seven slim volumes of his verse produced between 1916 and 1945, this is the first comprehensive collection of Pasternak's poetry ever to appear in English...