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HOME REPAIRS cost U.S. householders a whopping $3 billion for the first five months of 1954, reports the Census Bureau. It figures that 18 million U.S. homeowners, 70% of all who own homes, spent a median $61 in fix-up money. Of the total, half were do-it-yourself fans; the rest gave the work to professionals...
...reporting discrepancies and absences of husbands on overseas assignments), but Mormon Utah is one state with more (633) husbands than wives. The U.S. has 1,776,681 more women than men (the reverse was true 75 years ago), 50.7 people per sq. mi. (v. 16.9 then), and its population (median age: 30.2, ten years more than in 1879) is 59% urban (v. 72% rural then...
Even after increases are granted at Yale and Princeton the present median pay for a professor at the University will be $2,000 ahead of the Yale median, and even more ahead of Princeton...
...Copper and Hue. It will be shown to businessmen around the U.S. to drive home the point that the Negro market is huge and profitable. In support of this Secretary Weeks quoted Census Bureau figures showing that the Negroes' total income has quadrupled since 1940. Their median income has shot up even faster. For non-whites (96% of whom are Negroes) the median annual income has risen almost four times, from $489 in 1939 to $1,943 in 1951, while the income of whites has increased less than three times, from...
After studying replies from more than 400 U.S. colleges and universities, the National Education Association was able to tell just where the money lies. For new instructors, the highest salary ceilings are in teachers' colleges (median: $4,530 a year) ; small private colleges pay the least ($3,330). "Typical top" salaries for professors run from $4,860 on small private campuses, to $7,583 at state universities, to $8,950 at municipal universities. Actually, says the N.E.A., it is better to be a head coach. Typical salary (at land-grant colleges...