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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feature of a semiannual meeting of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church was described as an "odd inquisition." Panel quizzes (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, et al.) regularly bring out sharper interrogation via TV networks. How many show producers courteously furnish the "quizzed" with an advance list of questions? Bishop Oxnam's innovation sounds like an intelligent and highly effective method of gaining firsthand information on matters of real concern...
...faded fast last month to the lowest total (3,625,000) and the lowest percentage (5.3%) since December 1957. Workers went back on payrolls in April at twice the normal seasonal rate, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week. No fewer than 735,000 moved from the unemployed list to jobs, 452,000 of them married men in the vital family breadwinner category. The recovering economy also brought enough additional workers (mainly young people and women) into the labor force to boost total employment by 1,200,000 to 65 million, biggest April working force in U.S. history...
...Metropolitan Club, and an Air Force concert at the Lisner Auditorium. But Quarles's death was more upsetting for its effect on the Pentagon. After two years as Defense Secretary, Neil McElroy planned to return to Cincinnati and Procter & Gamble in the fall (TIME, March 16). Topping the list of possible successors: Donald Quarles, eminently suited with his scientific and administrative background and his six years of Defense Department experience...
...keep the price low, broaden the market for their securities. Many an investor would rather buy 100 shares at $15 a share than ten shares at $150. Atlantic Refining was selling at $86 and losing stockholders when it split its stock in 1952. In the following few months its list of stockholders increased by 34%, the next year by another 19%. Other companies, such as General Motors (which has had two splits since 1946), feel that every stockholder is a potential customer or an unpaid salesman and publicity man; therefore the price of the stock should be kept low enough...
...George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, last night commented that King is part of "the best list of guest preachers the University has had." Buttrick also disclosed that the 1959-60 William Belden Noble Lectures will be delivered by Professor Joseph Sittler of the Federal Theological Faculty, University of Chicago, from December 6 to December...