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Doors are opening. But is the rate of investment in human resources sufficient to equip Negroes for the better jobs? Again, a few gross figures to outline the problem and show what remains to be done...
...fully equip Negroes to compete for the jobs they would reach with continued present progress, 68.0 percent of all Negroes should be high school graduates by 1985; 14.7 percent should be college graduates. (see Table 4). To equip Negroes for full economic equality, 74.9 percent should be high school graduates, 16.7 percent college graduates. To be sure, these figures assume that every Negro must have the median education for his job. Some will be able to hold the better jobs without the appropriate diploma. But the education of whites is increasing rapidly as well, and will not fall far short...
TABLE 4 Education of Nonwhites Required to Fully Equip Them for the Jobs of 1985 Needed in 1985 for continued present progress Needed in 1985 for full economic equality College completed 14.7% 16.7% High school completed 68.0% 74.9% Less than 4 years of high school...
...farm families are moving into town, and the old-fashioned threshing gangs have given way to the farmer who sits in the air-conditioned cab of a $ 15,000 combine; he can now harvest a 1,000-acre crop with the help of a single hired hand. The farm-equip ment industry is, not surprisingly, in clover. Near Kamsack, Sask., Farmer Paul Strilaiff farms the homestead where his Russian immigrant parents settled at the turn of the century. He has done so well sending wheat back to Russia that last fall he walked into the office of a Kamsack implement...
...carrier, with 14,119 miles of route and 10% of the business, was a one-man show for 41 years. The man was Collett Everman Woolman. Old-fash ioned where finances were involved, "C. E." was progressive about his equip ment. Nothing pleased him so much as the fact that the airline he founded was the first to fly the Convair 880, the DC-8, and last year the DC-9. Delta was also scheduled to be first with the Lockheed L-100, a civilian model of the Air Force Hercules cargo plane. But when the occasion came last week...