Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foote, Cone & Belding's Ralph B. Austrian sounded an even more ominous note on the loss in radio listeners. The gist of his news: Television sets are wooing away from radio a rapidly increasing part of its audience and establishing "a new trend in listening habits. The final effect will be a reduction in radio billings." The cash thus freed, thought Austrian, would soon begin to flow into television, for which he saw a bright future. By the end of next year, he predicted, television would command an audience of 4,500,000 with 750,000 television sets...
...somewhat since 1936. Thirty-three percent of the total is now invested in government bonds. The University held no government bonds at all in 1936. Holdings in common stocks have also increased from twenty-nine percent in 1936 to thirty-six percent in 1947. Sign of the times: this trend continued during 1946-47, when the University added $6 million to its common stock investments. Claflin attributes to "larger dividends from common stocks" the fact that in 1947 balances were more favorable than in 1946. Both common stock and government bond rises have been balanced almost entirely by a sharp...
...past year or two "Had Enough?" forces have buttressed conservative elements and made it increasingly difficult to fight for human liberties. He decried the Taft-Hartley Law, the method of administering loyalty checks, and activities of the un-American Activities Committeee as the most depressing aspects of this trend...
...trend toward Radcliffe support of N.S.A. was indicated last night when Gladys Susman '48 completed tabulation of votes cast at Agassiz House Monday and yesterday by 258 students classified as commuters. Of the 258 ballots, only 11 opposed 'Cliffe affiliation with N.S.A. The vote represented approximately 78 percent of the 330 commuters eligible to consider the question...
Gottfried Haberler, professor of Economics, hold a contrary view, believing that only "credit controls and the budget surplus" are needed to end the current inflationary trend within a year...