Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans "a strong academic program," library expansion, and increased discussion of controversial subjects in the classroom. A Phi Beta Kappa himself, he also has a special goal: to raise Maryland's academic standing so that, like more than 150 other colleges and universities, it will be qualified to award Phi Beta Kappa keys...
...York Shipbuilding, a 1952 deficit of 26? a share was turned into a profit of $4.29 in 1953, but $2.40 of it came from nonrecurring income, i.e., an arbitration award on an old contract and for work completed before Wolfson came in. With these profits he declared a 50% stock dividend last January, has since paid $2 a share, first since 1950 and highest since...
...Council has been particularly interested in TIME's direct-mail technique. One of the problems most college alumni secretaries have is getting out persuasive direct mail. This is especially true in such fields as fund-raising campaigns. Last winter the council asked if TIME would put up an award for the best "Direct-Mail Campaign of the Year." At the council's convention in Gulfport, Miss. this summer, at which we sponsored a three-day direct-mail clinic, the award was made for the first time. The winner: Columbia University...
...advice of a doctor who told her to take a "long, long rest," Academy Award-winning Actress Audrey (Roman Holiday) Hepburn, 25, also the toast of Broadway for her star performance in Ondine, announced that she is going to loaf for "at least eight months" in Switzerland, Italy, France and England. Said overstrained Audrey: "I want to enjoy life, and not become a wreck after a few years of work, like so many others...
...John Hancock Life. American Airlines and Westinghouse have elaborate programs. In 1953 General Motors alone paid out $2,419,709 (an average $52 a suggestion); Ford paid $542,918, Du Pont $295,382. General Electric $685,842. Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award (and a promotion) for one selfless civil servant who suggested abolishing his own $12,000 job. Estimated saving to Uncle Sam from such suggestions: $44 million. In many companies employee suggestions have won equal rank with research. Says a Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. executive: "Our experience has been that...