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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teach them or let them fall by the wayside. It may be foolish, as many feel, to impose a language requirement on college students who may be particularly inept at such study and who will be saddled with these elementary courses when they could be moving into higher academic brackets in other fields. The reasoning behind this is similar to that of Frohock, who maintains "I've never known an educated man who didn't know at least two languages...
Payrolls were growing fatter because basic industries continued to pick up: higher than any week in 1958.
...Lorillard Co., still riding high on the sales of Kent cigarettes, voted a 95? extra, bringing dividends to $4 v. $1.95 in 1957. Extra dividends and 2-for-1 stock splits were approved by Pet Milk and Kellogg Co.; growing drug sales gave Chas. Pfizer & Co. stockholders a higher dividend, a year-end extra of 60? and a proposed 2½-for-1split...
...other major strikes threatened the U.S. airline industry last week: higher pay, better working conditions and assurance that they will not be replaced by pilot-qualified engineers on the new jetliners. Eastern's 600 engineers expect to shut the line down completely. It may be tough to do: much of Eastern's equipment is twin-engined, needs no engineer, and qualified pilots can operate as engineers on long-range...
...American Airlines' 1,500 pilots also set a deadline for a strike this week. As with the engineers, the issue is higher pay (up an average 15% a month to $1,900 for senior DC-7 pilots) and a contract with the line specifying that the "third man" in the cockpit of the new jets will be a pilot as well as an engineer...