Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget, but to be really comparable, the U.S. budget would have to include the spending of U.S. Steel, General Motors, A.T. & T. et al. But if the Russian budget is hard to compare to the U.S.'s, it is nonetheless the biggest in Soviet peacetime history. A single sheet of statistics was handed out to the delegates to study. To judge by it, Soviet citizens may live a bit better in 1960, but far from overtaking the U.S., they will still not have caught up to Polish or East German living standards...
...month earnings well ahead of last year. Third-ranking Republic reported a net loss of $24,861,406, biggest quarterly loss in its 60-year history. But because of a record second period, Republic's nine months' net was $2.69 per share v. $2.50 last year. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., No. 6 among the nation's steelmakers, had a third-quarter loss of $7,149,660. In the first nine months of 1959, Youngs-town's net was $6.20 per share v. $3.32 last year...
...only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with old scandals and new specials, the Cowpoke is still top draw, but the Eye has impressive fire power, and by year's end he may well be top gun. The TV tally sheet already lists 62 shows (network and syndicated) devoted to some variation of Cops & Robbers. Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only a few hours a week; it is the civilian shamus who lays down by far the heaviest barrage. At least 15 of the Private Eyes now visible have...
...harsh heat of Cairo International Airport last year, a Chinese-American traveler idly watched a scrawny Egyptian newsboy. The boy got nowhere with his tabloid sheet. But when Richard C. Kao of Los Angeles saw the boy snatch a piece of bread from a restaurant table, Kao decided that he wanted a newspaper. He offered a ?5 note, his smallest bill. The boy quickly fetched the change. Counting it, Kao discovered that he had got his paper free. It was simple enough, the boy explained. The slender man "with the kind face" had only a ?5 note; he must...
...junkets), his product the most racily advertised in the staid textile world. His most famed ad, captioned by himself and duly noted by the U.S. Post Office: a smiling Indian squaw rocking a tired brave in a bedsheet hammock, with the legend, "A buck well spent on a Springmaid sheet...