Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unexciting & Shallow. The longer the student must work, the heavier will be his financial burden, and the more apt he will be to drop out of graduate school before finishing his requirements. But even if his money holds out, say the deans, "what surety does he have about the kind of training he will meet? . . . Here too much is obscure, and too often the assignment of routine courses replaces careful faculty consideration. Too much is mechanical; too little is personal. It is easier to tell a man to take the traditional courses-unexciting, shallow, and often repetitious survey courses-than...
...rise, overall industrial production slipped another notch in October to 142 on the Federal Reserve's index, two points below September and four points below October 1956. While nondurable goods held steady, steel, producers' equipment, construction materials and autos all were down, although much of the auto drop was due to the model changeover, and the Fed itself noted that November production schedules indicate a "marked recovery." Bank loans to business were also down in October to a total $31.3 billion, a decrease of $796 million since midyear v. an increase of $1.2 billion in 1956 during...
...general public has substantially abandoned its use of trains for other modes of travel." So said Baltimore & Ohio Railroad President Howard E. Simpson last week as the B. & O. petitioned the public service commissions of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania for permission to drop its Baltimore-New York City passenger service, once esteemed as the "prestige run." Simpson, himself one of the few top railroaders to rise through the passenger department, had good reason to request a cutback. Of the B. & O.'s $34 million passenger deficit last year, $5,000,000 came from the six daily Baltimore-New York...
Carloading Crisis. That kind of radical surgery would not cure all the railroad ills. The rails are also being hurt by the drop in freight, which supplies 85% of their income. Last week carloadings dipped 5.4% from the previous week-the sharpest week-to-week drop in three years-and were 12.6% under the same week of 1956. The overall picture was not quite so dark as the week-to-week statistics made it appear. Carloadings have been dropping from the 1956 level for most of this year, but the gap between loadings in 1957 and 1956 has remained steady...
Snygg commented that his organization has not yet secured an NAACP executive to debate with Wang. The Harvard Liberal Union which is cosponsoring the program, has voted to drop out if the HSMR cannot get someone to debate Wang...