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...Pont Treasurer John Jacob Raskob persuaded his firm, back in 1917-19, to sink about $50 million into a struggling automobile company named General Motors. That fabulously foresighted investment, now worth close to $2.7 billion, makes giant E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. the owner of the largest block of stock (23%) of the biggest industrial giant of them...
...primary concern of American education today is not the development of the appreciation of the 'good life' in young gentlemen born to the purple. It is the infusion of the liberal and humane tradition into our entire educational system. Our purpose is to cultivate in the largest number of our future citizens an appreciation of both the responsibilities and the benefits which come to them because they are Americans and are free...
...seniors, receiving the A.B. degree, 61 masters of arts, one master of sciences, 52 masters of arts in teaching, and 21 doctors of philosophy. Added to the number of masters of arts degrees awarded at midyears, Radcliffe will gave granted a total of 76 A.M.'s this year, the largest ever given in a single year...
...much does the cotton support program cost taxpayers? Last week Lamar Fleming Jr., board chairman of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest private cotton dealers, dug into Government figures, came up with the staggering total of $1,156,000,000 as the cost this year. In a speech to the American Cotton Congress in Dallas, Fleming, a crusader for sound farm policies (TIME, April 8), pointed out that this is more than $1,000 for each of the 850,000 farms on which cotton is grown...
...graded according to rank, with white-collar workers in one room, various executive echelons in the others. All rooms are air-conditioned, have piped-in music, and are pleasantly decorated (some in rosewood paneling, one with a pigskin leather floor). The kitchen is one of the world's largest all-electric cookeries, has a refrigerated room to keep all scraps. Socony's restaurant is probably the most luxurious example of a growing trend in U.S. business. Last year 41,000 companies served some 23 million meals each working day to their employees, spent more than $3 billion...