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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breathing normally and has an ample supply of air, his lungs and airways will easily establish a pressure equal to that of the water at his depth. But if he holds his breath while descending, he creates a low-pressure pocket in his lungs: his blood is at a higher pressure, and blood vessels (especially in the lungs, but also in the eye socket and ears) may burst. This will cause the spitting of frothy blood-an alarming symptom, but in this case not likely to be fatal...
...alma mater: a plan to raise $4,000 to boost faculty salaries during the coming year. Wrote Class President Walter W. Doren in the Daily Northwestern: "The campuses of America are filled with benches, gates, clocks and similar senior-class gifts which have little or nothing to do with higher education's actual needs. Our class does not want to memorialize itself with a plaque. We wish instead to make a meaningful contribution to tomorrow...
Next day the market turned right around, climbed 7.32 points to make up more than half of the loss, followed it up with another burst of buying later in the week to wipe out the last of the damage. The final Dow-Jones figure: 468.07, or 1.78 points higher than where it started...
Where Sales Are Low. In the few industries with slow sales, inventories are being controlled by cutting production. General Electric will lay off about 2,500 TV-set workers for a week because stocks are higher than sales. Bates Manufacturing Co. will close a big synthetic textile mill at Androscoggin, Me. in April; Berkshire Hathaway is running nine combed-cotton mills at 60% to 80% capacity...
...once officially demanded an increase in the allowable production set for the state's oilmen. The requests had come from Humble Refining Co., a Jersey Standard subsidiary, and from Magnolia Oil Co., a Socony subsidiary, both of them major Texas refiners with an economic stake in higher tidewater production...