Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the watchdog theory may have been effective in the bygone days of tutoring schools, it seems superfluous today. Students who really want to cheat can probably outwit the examiners. A proctor would be necessary for virtually every student to prevent an occasional cheater from consulting his small sheet of math formulas or list of important dates...
Last year 107 American movies grossed $1,000,000 or more each in the U.S. and Canada, according to the trade sheet Variety. Topping the list was Cinerama Holiday, and topping the studios was Warner Bros., with six hits out of the first 15 movies, five of them done by contracting outside talent. The year's favorites and their estimated takes...
...entertainment trade sheet Variety each week decrees which pop songs are hits on the basis of surveys and polls. Last week it published its 4 Ib. 1½ oz., 514-page 50th anniversary number, and tried something harder: picking the top hits of the half century. The list, chosen by Columnist Jim Walsh on the basis of originality, catchiness or sales figures: In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, School Days, Casey Jones, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I Want a Girl, Waiting for the Robert...
...House. In Washington. D.C., Charles Edward Beard was sentenced to a year in jail for stealing Government property after he drove up to a large city comfort station, climbed to the roof under cover of darkness, coolly hacked off 373 Ibs. of sheet copper, drove away...
...independents, competition from the Big Three is rough; and when American reported this week on its first full fiscal year since the Nash-Hudson merger, the balance sheet showed it. In the year ending Sept. 30, American lost $6,956,425. Stockholders found some cheer in the fact that it was only about half the 1954 losses (and it was well below Studebaker-Packard's $19,301,513 loss for 1955's first nine months). And 88% of American's 1955 losses came in the first six months, before savings made from the consolidation of Nash...