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...some companies which were hard hit last year by the pinch in metals and the switch to arms work were doing better with the freeing of materials. Studebaker, for example, boosted earnings 47% to $3,900,000. The booming oil companies-which have increased earnings almost without a stop for years-were now having their ups & downs. Phillips Petroleum, Standard Oil (N.J.), and Atlantic Refining were up; Shell, hit by a strike at its Houston refinery, reported a half-year net of $19 million, down from $23 million...
...first six months have made 49-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the "young Turk of Toryism," the fastest-growing man in the Conservative Party. His budget, a brave one, shapes up already as the outstanding success of the half-year. The drain on Britain's lifeblood, the dollar reserves, was slowed and the gap between dollars spent and dollars earned was closed last month to $71 million, chiefly as a result of Butler measures...
Because the cathartic value of free discussion is held in such high esteem at Open, a friendly rivalry has sprung up among the professors to see whose half-year course can take the longest. Present leader is a social science course on Thought and Institutions, which takes more time to put forth its material than even the most optimistic sociologist would hope to predict...
...student body completely free of suppression neuroses and abnormal personal problems. On the other hand the constant interruption by students of the lecturing professors does slow down the dissemination of factual knowledge. Consequently in the more populous courses, it occasionally takes up to a year and a half to complete a half-year course...
...Second-year Business School men will be greeted by a change in requirements this year. In order to provide a more balanced program, the administration has instituted distribution requirements which call for five half-year Functional and Institutional courses, two half-year Coordination courses, two half-year Perspective courses and one elective. This, and information concerning the classification of courses into categories, is available in the form of a supplement to the catalogue...