Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete his study on the economics of higher education, Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer professor of Political Economy, will travel to 60 American colleges next year. He plans to give advice on financial problems...
...Crystal plan. For Dudley, they will prepare a telephone campaign, and increase the number of solicitors. Large gifts, such as the $1,000 one given by a student in Eliot House during the past Drive, will also be solicited next year. The Drive has been adopting a progressively higher goal each year...
...four weeks in the doldrums, the stock market came to life last week, pushed into uncharted territory. The Dow-Jones industrials clipped through the old high of 614.69, climbed 18 points for the week to a new record of 624.06. Reflecting week-by-week increase in car-loadings and higher rail earnings, the Dow-Jones railroads climbed to a new 1959 high of 168.92, up 5.81 for the week, and highest since 1956. What encouraged Wall Street about the advance was that the market leadership came from such old-line blue chips as American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines...
...public. Both sides were firing off statements designed to win friends and influence people. United Steelworkers President David McDonald, who had rejected the steelmakers' request that he freeze wages, demanded that the steelmen freeze prices for the life of the new contract, and still give 500,000 steelworkers higher wages and benefits. This would be "justified," McDonald argued, by the industry's heavy profits (see below) and the rising productivity of the workers...
...Last week Loew's (MGM) reported earnings of $1.08 per share for the 28 weeks ended March 12, a gain of almost 1,000% over a year earlier. United Artists Corp. announced that it boosted revenues 20% and earnings 30% for 1958 to set new records. In 1959, higher earnings have been reported by Warner Bros., National Theatres, Inc., 20th Century-Fox and Columbia...