Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely that TV was a big factor in newspapers' gain of 1,000,000 circulation (to a record 57 million) last year. Los Angeles Times Editor L. D. Hotchkiss even credits his paper's saturation coverage of TV with helping to cure the summer circulation slump that has long plagued dailies. Madison Avenue also seems to have heeded publishers' arguments that newspaper ads command greater attention than TV commercials. While TV's ad revenues have jumped $452 million in the past two years, daily newspaper advertising in the same period grew by a record $610 million...
BRITISH AUTO COMEBACK is smashing records after slump last year (TIME, March 26, 1956). In May British weekly output rose to peak of 19,094 cars, 37% ahead of same month last year. May exports climbed to 41,612, beating threeyear-old record by 7%. U.S. is receiving record 8,000 British cars a month, for first time has replaced Australia as British automakers' best overseas customer...
...tourist trade hit a severe slump...
...enrollment figure will represent an increase of nearly ten percent, Miss Hildebrand revealed. The enrollment last year was 2686. Enrollment figures have risen steadily, she noted, since the end of the World War II veterans boom caused a slump...
...Appliance sales, down sharply so far in 1957, are climbing out of the slump. Said Whirlpool-Seeger Corp.'s president, Elisha Gray II: "We interpret the general indices as showing much improvement for the last half of the year...