Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McDonald also announced yesterday that as a result of the recent College Scholarship Service conference in New York, the scholarship officers of the Ivy Schools would hold a discussion session independent of their deans this fall. McDonald said the talks, which he described as "lower level," would consider the problems of scholarship aid keeping up with cost rises and of reducing apparent competitive bidding in the whole Ivy League...
...agreed that the Soviet system has advantages. But he has seen the important defects in education in Hungary, where a copy of the Soviet system was imposed. The Communist system, the student asserted, had lower standards than the schools that existed in the satellite countries before they turned Communist...
...School teachers and professors are the elite of Soviet society," according to the report. But the Hungarian did not agree. "The great professors in the universities, yes," he said, "but not the ordinary high school teacher." He said that in Hungary, for example, a teacher's salary is even lower than a worker...
...outfit tried to measure "the Boredom Factor" by depth interviews, found that heavy percentages of ordinary viewers-not just the critics-yawning at such TV sacred cows as Arthur Godfrey (47%) and Red Skelton (38%). Cunningham feels that the Boredom Factor causes "dial-twitching, vacant-minded viewing, lower ratings" and, as far as the sponsor is concerned, "less penetration-per-skull per dollar...
Despite all fears about lower operating rates, few steelmen had poor business to report. National Steel, Armco Steel and Bethlehem Steel all had good sales and earnings, Bethlehem with its best earnings ever (see PERSONNEL). And for U.S. Steel, Chairman Roger M. Blough noted nine-month earnings of $329 million for a 9.7% return on sales v. $243.3 million and an 8% return in 1956. All told this year, said Blough, the industry will produce 115 million tons, just under the 1956 level. Next year, though the industry may slip back to an operating rate somewhere between...