Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a half hour of confused parliamentary wrangling, the Student Council last night postponed action on a "proposal to end the inequities in the Honors in General Studies program...
...General Electric's first-quarter profits were up 7% over last year, announced Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner, to 60? a share v. 56? in 1958. Ford Motor Co. reported the best first-quarter and the second-best quarter in its history, rang up consolidated earnings of $2.46 a share v. 55? last year. Du Font's President Crawford H. Greenewalt told stockholders that the company's first-quarter earnings increased "perhaps 70%" on a 22% rise in sales. Said Greenewalt: "In 1959, sales will be substantially ahead of those realized in 1958 and will perhaps establish...
...sold 737,879 cars and held third place, Buick skidded steadily to 263,890 sales and fifth place last year. Trying desperately to arrest this slump, Buick Boss Edward Tillottson Ragsdale, 61, radically remodeled the 1959 Buick. But in this year's first quarter, when all other General Motors models rode up, Buick sunk to seventh place as sales slipped another 11%, and its market share dipped from...
...more planes and grossed $2,500,000 more than in January 1958. The recession proved that for the businessman, the private plane is not a luxury but a necessity. U.S. businessmen have taken to the air in such numbers that business plane operators now account for 50% of general aviation's flying hours, logged 1,500,000 more flying hours in 1958 than all U.S. domestic scheduled airlines...
Dean Monro also liked the general idea, but felt other proposals should be considered. He felt that the College ought if possible to do something along these lines for next fall...