Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large programs are now operating: the General Motors National Program, and National Merit Scholarships, a $20,000,000 offspring of the Ford Foundation, born last September. Both plans have one stated aim--to draw more of America's potential talent into higher education, the highroad to an industrial desk...
...trying to sell cars, the publicity given this program may make it worthwhile. But if General Motors, or the Ford Foundation, wants to attract more intelligent students to higher education, they must not only pay the bills but create the demand...
This job can only be done by experienced and competent guidance counsellors, who can spot students with ability and show them both the advantages and the openings in higher education. If anybody really wants to get talent into the colleges, the money should be spent in the state capitols, lobbying for adequate counselling in every high school...
SOFT COAL COMEBACK will bring as much as a 50?-a-ton price boost in April, the second such increase in seven months. The boost, owing to increasing demand (up 20% in 1955) and higher costs, will raise soft coal prices to where they were before the 1948 depression...
...record by flying 822 m.p.h. last year. Even then it was under wraps; estimates are that it can top 1,000 m.p.h. with its Pratt & Whitney J57 engine and afterburner going full blast. The F-100 can fly and fight effectively at 50,000 ft. (10,000 ft. higher than the F-86), and packs an array of 2.75-in. rockets and radar-sighted 20-mm. cannon which fire so fast a burst sounds like the high toot of a diesel locomotive. Cost of an F-100: $640,000, nearly three times more than...