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...University's lack of influence in the legislative and official life of this state should spur its students and faculty to careful introspection. An assent to this view was more specific. It suggested that Harvard make available its faculty for adult education programs and that the Business School broaden the sort of men its teaches...
...reared a $42 million lubricating oil refinery beside the Lake Charles refinery, spent $21 million more on new oil and gas pipelines and plants, completed Cities Service's modern fleet of 22 tankers. To broaden his oil operations on the East Coast, which were 90% wholesale, he took long-term leases on Continental Oil's 1,600 filling stations. Though Cities Service's 1949 net, like the industry's, had dropped (at $55 million it was down $10 million), Jones boosted the company's earned surplus $70 million to a record high of $243.6 million...
...World, published simultaneously in cheap and higher-priced editions, sold so phenomenally (1,400,000) that S. & S. decided to try further experiments in combined editions. These worked so well that S. & S. is willing to risk $100,000 on its new venture, and if it proves out, will broaden it over more of their list. "The bookseller," says Dick Simon, "will no longer have to apologize for the high price of reading...
...Better Aspect. To "broaden the basis of public support," he planned to put subscriptions within closer reach of opera lovers. For a first-class seat, instead of one series of 18 operas for $135, there would be two series of nine operas for $67.50 each. He hoped to attract more young people, and "since this young audience has more contemporary ideas on the visual aspects of operatic affairs," he hoped to introduce some more up-to-date production methods backstage...
...governments have to recognize the facts." He thought that the military occupation of Japan should be ended as quickly as possible and a peace treaty drawn up, with Canada participating. One of his most significant remarks touched on Canada's relations with Latin America. Said Pearson: "We should broaden and deepen our association with the Latin republics of this hemisphere." That was the nearest any cabinet minister had ever come to saying that Canada should join the Pan-American Union...