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...free tickets, but many show up to speak their minds about radio. First they are screened to match the particular program's national audience. (Says Schwerin: "There is no such thing as a typical radio audience.") Then they listen to programs, recording their reactions on a tab sheet. About every 30 seconds they check the "good," "fair," or "poor" column. After Jan. 1, testers will use a mechanical gadget called the "reacto-caster," developed by Schwerin's father...
...wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities had risen a thumping 22.4% since the beginning of July. One big boost still stuck. From June 15 to July 15 retail food prices had soared 13.8%, the largest monthly jump in the 43 years since the Bureau had been keeping tab on them. (Actually, the real price to the consumer did not go up quite as much because of the abolition of subsidies on decontrolled products, which he must no longer pay via taxes.) Food prices dropped only slightly after the revival...
...Manhattan's adless tab, which bragged in June that it had spent a whole year in the black, backslid a fortnight ago into...
...some Ruml plans of its own, and was giving him a chance to operate on a far broader scale than he could as treasurer. Even within these limits, Ruml has already thought up several plans for Macy's. Best known is his "Q-system" of accounting, which keeps tab on individual department gains, thus makes each department compete with every other...
...time would have a clearing house to tie to gether all agencies' intelligence work. It could have used one before Pearl Harbor, when global gumshoeing was a fine art among other powers. (Britain's S.I.S.- -Secret Intelligence Service - and its pre cursors had helped the Crown keep tab on good & bad neighbors for nearly 400 years.) Three decades of intensive globetrotting, politicking and lawyering had prepared General Donovan for the job he did in setting up the U.S. in world espionage. One generation removed from County Cork, he was the mild-mannered, studious type, got his antonymous nickname...