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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salaries, however, have not been the only lure. Brandeis has not yet had to resort to the technique of many smaller schools: hiring many young teachers and then firing them before they reach the higher paying academic levels. As a result, good younger men have been able to develop at the Waltham campus...
Color in Papers? U.S. papers have deteriorated in appearance as well as content, says Seltzer. Too many meet the problem of higher newsprint costs by "cutting out white space, narrowing column rules, shortening lines of type, crowding another column to a page, [resorting to] one or more of a dozen devices to make the paper look worse, which in turn make it harder to read and make the reader mad enough to turn his attention to television or a typographically attractive magazine . . . Nine out of ten papers are crowded, lack eye-appeal, crowd too much in too little . . . What...
...were peasants, his father was an artillery officer, and Henri Petiot began life as a bright young man with an academic future. He majored simultaneously in law, geography and history at the University of Grenoble, took the equivalent of an M.A. in each, won his agrégation (slightly higher than Ph.D.) at 21. He became a lycée professor in Neuilly, continued teaching until 1945. His first book, a volume of essays called Notre Inquiétude, was published in 1926. He signed it Daniel-Rops-the name he had invented for a character in an un published...
...world's biggest steelmaker, the blast furnaces never blazed higher. In the first three months of 1956, U.S. Steel Board Chairman Roger M. Blough reported sales of $1.1 billion, a record for any quarter, while earnings of $104 million, up $32 million, touched off a first-quarter peak. But with the expanding good times came an issue for hot debate in the industry: should steel prices be boosted in 1956? As far as Big Steel's Chairman Blough, whose company is the industry's traditional price-setter, was concerned, the answer was no. Though heavy wage demands...
Chairman Blough's words were echoed by Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace, whose company was also driving to new heights: record first-quarter sales of nearly $600 million, $148 million higher than 1955. Grace said that his company would also make no price moves until the summer bargaining session was over, though "any increase in the cost of producing steel should be recaptured through the price route...