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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Higher considerations aside, the waiting-on program is run with a minimum of efficient organization and a maximum of wasted effort. Most of the students involved--the number varies from four to eleven for each meal, depending on the size of the dormitory--scurry around the dining room getting in one another's way. The others dry dishes which, if left for five minutes, would dry better in the air. Naturally enough, the student waitress deplores the time she wastes in this fashion and hurries the meal as much as possible. The inevitable result is that College meals are eaten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Waiting Game | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

...What is the tuition for study in the institutions of higher learning in the U.S.A...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Innocents Abroad | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

...boosting first-half earnings to $5.66 per share v. $1.25 during the same period last year. For the first time since 1954, American returned to a quarterly cash dividend program, declared a 60? payment. With the peak sales season coming up, President George Romney said he "anticipates an even higher level" of production, sales and earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To Higher Roads | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...FARM-INCOME drop of about $1 billion to $12.1 billion in 1959 is forecast by Agriculture Department because of higher production costs and elimination of some soil-bank payments. Income is still expected to be well above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...traveling New York security analysts were looking for cheaper buys than exist in the booming U.S. stock market. Though European prices have risen sharply in the past six months, stock yields are still higher and price-earnings ratios lower than in the U.S. The analysts found plenty of reasons why U.S. investors need to be sophisticated in buying European securities. Tax laws and accounting systems differ; dangers of nationalization and freezing of capital still lurk in some countries; many European companies have yet to adopt the U.S. attitude that the stockholders have every right to look at the books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Good Buys, But.. . | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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