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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the new league needs far more than big talk is big players like Linebacker Sam Huff. Down in Consol No. 9, back in Farmington, W. Va., a monster engine pulls loads of coal out of the mine, and still has enough power left over to do half a dozen other jobs. Nickname of the engine: the Sam Huff Special. "By jingo," says the proud father of the finest linebacker in the world, "it pulls an awful load...
...Oberlin College's President William E. Stevenson. Object of their ire: the "disclaimer affidavit" in the loyalty provision of the federal Student Loan Program. Last week, joining at least 13 other colleges and universities, Harvard, Yale and Oberlin quit the loan program. Between them, they turned back about $476,000 in federal funds...
...most admired architectural traditions, one that has influenced Western artists and architects from the mid-19th century to the present. But at home Japanese architects have long found themselves faced with a dilemma: how to be modern and still remain Japanese. When the modern movement was brought back from Europe by early Japanese students of Germany's Bauhaus and France's Le Corbusier (see below), the results were often merely derivative cubist modern...
Plant expansion will bound back to the 1957 record rate of $37.8 billion and could show a "startling" 30% jump to a rate of $43 billion by the end of the year, said William F. Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...week to 638,408 cars, the largest traffic since the 697,633 cars loaded in the last week of June. Even the steel industry's biggest and hardest-hit customer, the auto industry, began to thaw. General Motors, which had shut down its plants, began to call workers back to resume making parts. Ford put its operation on five days, and scheduled overtime on the Falcon, Thunderbird and Lincoln. (But Chrysler laid off more workers, stopped production of its Valiant.) With American Motors and Studebaker-Packard also operating five days, the industry's output for the week...