Word: tens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrialization called forth new skills, the French workingman's average pay jumped 60% (to $80 monthly) in a decade; Danes and Norwegians average 84? an hour, v. 42? ten years ago, while Swedes get a minimum $1.16 an hour, v. 50? an hour in 1948. The British secretary who once considered herself lucky to draw $1,100 annually can command better than $2,800 in 1959. The sums may not be princely by U.S. standards, but they are enough to open up a new way of life...
...that will push the number of Americans past the 200 million mark by 1970, a population so much in need of homes, clothes, autos and all the other things that Americans expect as their birthright that the U.S. will be ripe for a $700 billion economy in ten years...
...second greatest economic power in the space of 30 years. They cite a Russian annual-growth rate twice as fast as that of the U.S., a Russian gross national product that is around 45% of the U.S. figure, with estimates that the Reds will reach 55% within ten years. The bald figures are impressive, but they must be read in the context of what economists know about growth: that nations taking off from a low base inevitably grow much faster in percentage than those already at a high level; that the Russians, who now concentrate on heavy industry, will find...
Following the Plot. In McClusky, N. Dak., two farm hands were caught stealing grain to raise enough money to see the movie The Ten Commandments...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Boy on Page One deals with forgotten four-to ten-year-old orphans, shows how agencies in Hamilton, Ontario, have found homes for them...