American Decades
"Television's Big Boom: Still to Come"
Magazine article
By: U.S. News and World Report
Date: April 6, 1951
Source: "Television's Big Boom: Still to Come." U.S. News and World Report, April 6, 1951.
About the Publication: In 1933, David Lawrence founded the weekly newspaper United States News. Six years later, he established the magazine World Report. He merged these two publications in 1948 to create the U.S. News and World Report. Beginning the in the 1980s, it started its annual rankings of U.S. colleges in universities. Besides reporting on current news events around the world, it also publishes the annuals America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools.
Introduction
Herbert Hoover, the secretary of commerce under Republican presidents Warren Harding (served 1921–1923) and Calvin Coolidge (served 1923–1929), left his indelible stamp...
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1950's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- "Battle Over Television: Hollywood Faces the Fifties: Part II"
- Inflation
- "Television's Big Boom: Still to Come"
- "Over the Top"
- "What the Public Thinks About Big Business"
- "How to Make a Billion: Fables of Texas Oil"
- "Consumer Credit: High But Safe"
- "The South Bets on Industry"
- "Convention Expels Teamsters"
- "Why the Edsel Laid an Egg: Research vs. the Reality Principle"
- "The 'Invisible' Unemployed"
- "It's a Smaller World"
- "The Challenge of Inflation"
- "Success by Imitation"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
