Word: midyear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return), Jaeger's 22 protégés have swept westward since September on one tourist flight after another. Each carries 44 lbs. of baggage, a dwindling $300 in pocket money. Behind them: Boston, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo. Ahead: Bangkok, Calcutta, New Delhi, Cairo (midyear exams), Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Florence, Geneva, Berlin, Paris, London (final exams). So far only one student has been lost; he missed the plane in Baltimore, caught up next day in San Francisco...
...surprise, the first wave of midyear earnings last week showed that 1959's upsurge in profits, so striking in the first quarter, had picked up even greater momentum in the second. From companies across the broad spectrum of U.S. industry-most of them old-line firms showing new vitality-came the heartiest figures to grace many a balance book in years. Items...
...midyear the booming U.S. economy was turning out goods and services at the rate of $479 billion a year and growing so rapidly that many Washington economists now expect it to pass the half-trillion mark before mid-1960. Behind this confidence was the economy's amazing expansion so far this year. Estimates last week of the growth that took place in the April-June quarter showed that the gross national product annual rate rose $12 billion over the first quarter, $5 billion more than expected. Added to a $14 billion gain in the January-March quarter, this made...
Observing that the next highest percentage in the last 15 years was 43 percent, earned by the Classes of '58 and '61, Miss Daveport said the Administration would like to think of this year's rise as "part of an upward trend." Since final grades are usually higher than midyear ones, she predicted that as much as 60 per cent of the 'Cliffe freshmen might make Dean's List by the end of the year...
Sargent Kennedy '38, Registrar of Harvard College, disclosed comparable freshman midyear figures for the Classes of '61 and '62. Last year 23.7 per cent of the freshmen had Group Three or better at midyears, 'while this year 31.6 per cent achieved the same level...