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...announced-by Chrysler, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, General Electric, Westinghouse, Alcoa. And Studebaker Corp., beset with troubles all last year (TIME, Sept. 21), cut its quarterly dividend from 75? to 40?. But Economist Woytinsky, whose record on predictions has been excellent, said that the present slip would be over by midyear and business would be about 7% above 1952 levels before the end of the year. Said Woytinsky, "Signs of danger are always with us, when [we] are traveling at such speed ... If the economy is strong enough ... these danger signs are just a challenge...
...developed a lifelong loathing of hotels and railroads, but sopped up his father's sturdy showmanship. According to legend, young O'Neill was bounced out of Princeton for heaving a beer bottle through President Woodrow Wilson's window, but the truth is that he flunked three midyear exams and all his freshman finals...
DESPITE currency and other restrictions, private U.S. investors have sunk $3.2 billion into American-controlled foreign enterprises in the last three years, half of it in Canada. Total such stakes abroad, as of midyear: $15 billion...
...business itself, it was not only booming, but promised to stay that way. Many a prophet who had predicted that business would slip after midyear changed his mind, now saw a good second half. A touch of spring in the air gave retail sales a push to an estimated 3% to 7% higher than a year ago. The SEC estimated that, on the basis of a new survey, business expansion in 1953 would exceed the record $26.5 billion spent last year. And the Federal Reserve Board's latest survey of consumers' spending plans indicated that U.S. customers this...
...Hygiene Department will no longer issue excuses for one-day absences for illness unless students miss an hour, midyear, or final examination. Students must tell the Hygiene Department they have these examinations if they expect an excuse to be issued for them...