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Government I, French E, and Economics A, all large survey courses, had the next largest survey courses, had the next largest number of enrolled students who tutor, the upperclassman returns revealed. Government I, the second on the tutoring list, however, lags far behind its companion course in the social sciences...
Underwritten by Travelers Insurance Co. of Hartford, the Ford policy is the third largest in the world, being exceeded only by that of U. S. Steel Corp. ($398,000,000) and General Motors...
...years a Detroit insurance broker named R. T. Johnstone (neither of whose initials stands for anything) has been pestering Ford Motor Co. to take out a group insurance plan for its employes. Though balding, 37-year-old R. T. Johnstone is one of the nation's largest producers of group insurance, Henry Ford always refused on the ground that group insurance was too paternalistic. Last week, however, Broker Johnstone talked again to Edsel Ford, finally closed a deal for a $150,000,000 plan covering more than 100,000 Ford workers. Said a Ford official: "The men wanted...
...Then Austria took over the plant and Shoemaker Bat'a returned to the U. S., set up a small factory in Lynn. When Czecho-Slovakia was born in 1918, he returned to Zlin to build Bat'a Shoe Co. into one of the world's largest (capacity: 250,000 pairs a day). Seven years ago Thomas Bat'a was killed in his private airplane, but last week his firm came again to the U. S.-it asked bids on an elaborate plant at Belcamp near Baltimore to employ 1,000 shoemakers within a year...
...orchestra. The festival was such a rip-roaring success that it became the talk of every small town in the Midwest. Five years later, Cincinnatians decided that their festival needed a permanent home. So at a cost of $310,000 they built themselves what was then the largest and finest concert auditorium in the U. S. Today Cincinnati's enormous, ancient, many-spired Music Hall still stands. The paint on its walls has chipped off and its roof leaks, but it is one of the half-dozen acoustically perfect large auditoriums in the U. S. There, every two years...