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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholarships held by undergraduates in Harvard College, 263, or almost three-quarters of the total number, were gained by men who prepared in high schools, it was revealed by statistics which have been released at University Hall. Only 96 holders are alumni of private preparatory schools, while 22 are transfers from other colleges...
...children of Michigan is not just another philanthropic foundation. For the entire principle and interest is to be spent within twenty-five years and none of the money is to go for scholastic research or for individual aid. The endowment will be used where it will show almost immediate and tangible results. Where others perhaps think for the good of the future in terms of dollars and the study of pure science, the Michigan senator prefers to deal with the human element, and to put it up to those who are benefited today to carry on tomorrow...
...employes, total salaries and total sales showed that in 1928 General Electric Co. had paid an average of 73,526 employes $134,056,000 and had received orders for $348,848,512 of C. E. products. The average employe therefore was paid $1,823 a year (almost exactly $35 a week). The average sales per employe...
...among these companies are: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. Three-fourths of the plant, nearly all the directorate, in Youngstown, Ohio. Makes principally pipe, sheet and tube; therefore best customers are the oil and automobile companies. Merger with Inland Steel Co. (Chicago district) has been frequently reported, was once almost completed, is still rumored. Ranks as Third Largest (3,000, 000-ton capacity); earned $10,-466.300 ($9.54 a share) in 1928. Jones & Laughlin. Fourth largest; closely held stock traded in over-the-counter market; estimated 1928 earnings $20 a share; operating in Pittsburgh area. Crucible Steel Co. Largest maker...
...Bendix Aviation Corp. is Vincent Bendix, inventor of the Bendix Drive, now used on more than 30,000.000 automobiles, developer, also, of the Bendix Four Wheel Brake. Tallish, well-built, with brown hair and a boyish complexion that shows no signs of his having been in existence for almost haF a century (born 1881), Mr. Bendix is nevertheless alarmed concerning embonpoint. Lately he acquired an elastic belt to pre vent undue Bendix expansion. An incident in the Bendix rise to fame and financial potency was his part-purchase of the Potter Palmer castle-mansion (TIME, Nov. 19) and other Lake...