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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since the College is not vastly different in size than it was 25 years ago, this must imply a significant increase in the quality of the student body, for the pressures on all colleges to expand during this interval, though interrupted by wars and depressions, were considerable and insistent, and resistance to them must inevitably have brought increased selectivity. Though exactly comparable figures are hard to come by, the number of qualified students applying for admission for the fall of 1952 was probably several times that of 1927 . . . It is also clear, however, that a carefully considered and finally accepted...
...provide much of the cash needed by colleges to expand their facilities and improve their teaching...
...present time, the ranks of bank workers number only about 400,000. What with the increases in branch banking, consumer credit, and government savings bonds, bank staffs will have to expand IBM machines...
There were other evidences of built-in stability. Despite U.S. industry's investment of $80 billion in new plants and equipment in the last three years, businessmen plan to expand at the rate of $27.9 billion a year in the first quarter of 1954, only 1% below 1953's record rate. Businessmen would prefer much less Government spending and an end to deficits (estimated U.S. deficit next fiscal year: $3 billion). But they also recognize that arms spending of $38 billion will be a big stabilizing influence...
Another pressing reason for raising social-security contributions is that the Administration wants to expand benefits and extend old-age and survivors' insurance to 10.5 million Americans not now covered. The inclusion of 6,500,000 would be mandatory under the Administration plan, including 3,000,000 self-employed farmers, about the same number of farm and domestic workers, and 500,000 professional workers, such as doctors, dentists and lawyers. Clergymen and state and local government employees could join if they chose. The Administration is also considering: 1) an increase in benefits, perhaps by $5 or $10 a month...