Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War I era, there were some 2,000 foreign-language periodicals in the U.S. with an estimated total circulation of 10,000,000. Today there are only some 800 with an estimated total circulation...
...dubious bank clerk." For his TV debut, he played just such a clerk, who dubiously plots to avenge 22 years of thankless labor by humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when he irons out the bugs. The show was directed too broadly, lacked the requisite British dryness, but in his subdued hilarity, Actor Guinness was perfect...
...gain over last year's level and the first time October sales have burst through the $18 billion mark. In November's first week, sales in U.S. department stores were running 5% ahead of last year. Retail sales for the first ten months of 1959 total $179.9 billion, 9% above 1958. At that rate, they will push well over $200 billion by year's end, a new alltime record...
Such nondurable goods as clothing, food and gasoline still account for two-thirds of the consumer's purchases, reached a sales total of $12 billion in October. Bigger gains have been run up in the durable field (see chart), where October sales hit $6.3 billion, up 17% over last year and nearly 10% over September. The durables got a hefty boost in October from soaring sales of Detroit's 1960 auto models, will probably level off this month because of a shortage of cars caused by the steel strike...
MERGER TALKS are going on between Rock Island and Milwaukee railroads. Merger of the two Chicago-based carriers would result in substantial savings in operating costs, form a road with 18,000 miles of track, largest in U.S., and total assets of more than $1 billion...