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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Student Association's largest sub-group, the New England Region, has adopted almost in toto "Project Awareness," a plan proposed by Eugene H. Zagat, Jr. '61, former Student Council vice-president, and one of the observers the Council sent to last summer's NSA convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Sub-Group Approves Plan Conceived by Council Observer | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

...nation's steelmakers, the strike's effect on earnings was all too apparent. All continued to report heavy third-period losses, though most showed nine-month results ahead of last year. Top ranking U.S. Steel had its first quarterly loss in 21 years, and its largest ever. Big Steel lost $31 million in the July-September period, but had nine months' earnings of $3.80 per share v. $3.56 last year. Other nine-month steel earnings: 1958 1959 Bethlehem Steel $1.68 $1.75 Jones & Laughlin 1.45 3.15 Wheeling Steel 1.80 2.78 Inland Steel 1.86 1.99 While second-quarter earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Profits & Effects | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...than any other shipbuilder during the war. At the same time, the Kaisers also had their first run-in with the steel industry, when they announced plans to build their Fontana steelworks on the West Coast with an RFC loan. Despite the industry's opposition, Kaiser built the largest steel plant west of the Mississippi (in ingot tonnage), paid off the Government loan 20 years ahead of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Steel's Maverick | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...call options have long been among the most baffling to investors. Many market players shy away from the options, consider them as risky as a crap game. But that is just not so, says jaunty, white-haired Herbert Filer, 65, head of Filer, Schmidt & Co., the nation's largest stock option dealer. This week, in Understanding Put and Call Options (Crown; $3), the first book on the business to be published in the U.S., Filer presents a case for using options to reduce stock market risks as well as for speculating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Put, Call & Win | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...York's Idlewild international airport, once a shantytown of jumbled wooden buildings, is rapidly taking shape as the world's best-as well as biggest-air terminal. Last week Eastern Air Lines opened a $20 million, four-acre terminal, the largest ever built for use of a single airline. Last month United Airlines opened its $14.5 million terminal. By 1963 U.S. lines will build five more of their own terminals, completing Idlewild's $150 million decentralized Terminal City passenger complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Bigger Than Grand Central | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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