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Ford stated that his committee would consider the drop-off of science concentrators "in connection with other problems rather than specifically by itself." Another committee member, Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr., professor of Biology, added that it was very important for the group to investigate the scientific background of the average applicant in order to determine "where science fits into a liberal education today...
...porch to himself for an office in Muncie, announced that the Post Office Department owed him money, too. Declared Harmon, a political rolling stone and onetime tool worker who tumbled into office with last fall's Democratic landslide: The Muncie post office used his versatile porch for a drop-off station for sacks of mail for nine years. The tab: $1,800. Replied Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield: "No legal basis...
DIAMOND MARKET is slumping to lowest point in 3½ years. First-quarter sales by De Beers, which controls world supply, totaled only $42.8 million v. $49.7 million in same 1957 period. Biggest drop-off came in automakers' demand for industrial stones, but gem demand also fell...
...state that produces nearly half of U.S. oil; and Willis C. Armstrong, director of the State Department's Office of International Resources. Because Canada is also affected by U.S. restrictions, Canada's Ambassador to Venezuela joined the talks. Some of the facts: ¶ Of the 14% drop-off in Venezuelan oil production since the Suez-crisis peak of 2,900,000 bbl. a day, the slump in the world market accounted for about 10%, U.S. voluntary restrictions for only 4%. ¶ In the same period, politically powerful Texas' output has dropped 18%. ¶ Crude prices...
...earnings rose from $34.1 million to an estimated $37.3 million. But Tidewater is expected to report an earnings drop from $34 million in 1956 to $27.2 million in 1957. Reason: Refiner Tidewater has been harder hit than the producing end of Getty's empire by the drop-off in gasoline demand...