Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Threaded through Drum's lively editorial potpourri is a dedication to the equality of man. Drum recognizes no color line, not even on its 125-man staff, where black and white work side by side. When the Rhodesian government boasted that "better-class Africans, properly dressed and properly behaved," would not be discriminated against, Drum tailored one of its Negro reporters in an expensive suit, equipped him with a certificate of education from a white university professor, then assigned him to order a meal in a Salisbury railway station cafe. As the reporter was thrown out, Drum cameras clicked...
...Financial Aid to Education (chaired by Irving S. Olds, former board chairman of U.S. Steel) reported this week that last year's corporate gifts to colleges were up 23.5% from 1956. Unrestricted gifts, the educators' favorite type, led the list with 34% of the total, and even a few red-ink companies kicked in. But the council hopes that corporate giving is still in its infancy. Donations to education by the sample companies amounted to only .27% of net income before taxes, said the council, and total corporate gifts, an estimated $136.5 million, amounted to only one-sixth...
...breaking so sharply with the traditional print, Japan's new wood-block artists have forfeited their traditional popularity at home. They had to await the coming of the American occupation to win acceptance, even now remain more popular abroad than at home. Putting a sampling of Japan's best on display, Manhattan's small Weyhe Gallery in two months sold 75 prints, 25 of them to museums and schools, last week was awaiting a fresh supply from Japan to restock its walls...
...alone) that economists feel they will now begin to channel their funds into new plants to meet consumers' rising demands. That does not mean that the inventory boom has spent itself; inventories have moved up close to the peak level of January 1957, but sales have moved up even faster...
...selling off 175,000 tons a week. The American Steel Warehouse Association checked 20 warehouses last week, found no sweeping nationwide increase in demand. The building industry will start running out of steel in September; so will makers of appliances, farm machinery, ships. Steelmakers have told Cincinnati toolmakers that even if peace comes soon they cannot expect deliveries for three or four months-so long is the waiting list of top-priority defense contractors. Yet steel users stood solidly behind the industry. Said District Manager L. M. Spicer of Los Angeles' Ceco Steel Products Corp.: "This country is going...