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...course, this suggests that commuting students are not, on the whole, as bright as their classmates, and such seems to be the case. According to Dean Bender, the average commuter has a lower Predicted Rank List than the average resident, and with only about 16 major "feeder schools" close enough to send their graduates to the College, the number of qualified applicants from this area appears limited...
Even without the big airliners, Lear has been doing well enough. Piedmont Airlines, a feeder line, has installed Lear instrument-landing equipment on eight of its planes, has found it "very satisfactory." Ozark Air Lines, another feeder, has also signed up. Lear profits in the first quarter of its fiscal year ran 33% ahead of 1958 (which registered an 87% gain over 1957) to better than $400,000. The backlog of firm orders was up to $77 million, biggest in the company's history, and a 10? dividend was declared, the third such quarterly dividend in a row. Last...
AIRMAIL SUBSIDIES, which have been declining since Korean war, will jump by $10,455,000 to $61,786,000 in fiscal 1960. More than 75% of total will go to local feeder airlines...
...wants to shoot the small foreign carriers out of the air. But many airmen think they should stay out of the international big leagues and concentrate on regional feeder operations where they can perform a real economic service. A prime example is Lebanon's Middle East Airlines (48% British Overseas Airways Corp. owned), which operates a profitable Viscount service throughout the Arab world-where air traffic increases 30% annually (world increase: 13%)-and has no ambitions beyond operating as a feeder service. A second solution for small lines would be to merge with others to form one major international...
...showroom to view the latest in mechanical hay balers. "Business," said Berkemeir, "is within a few dollars of double last year." Used tractors taken back as trade-ins scarcely stay in the shop long enough to be oiled and repainted. Fresh from selling off 160 head of feeder cattle, Farmer Bill Hynick, 45, dropped by recently, plunked down $1,950 for a two-year-old model. "I've been thinking of buying for a couple of years," said Hynick. "Until now, I couldn...