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...year ended March 31, it expects to report a slight gain over last year's $1.47-per-share profit. Though at first Diners' Club tried to meet competition by reducing its credit standards, it soon hiked them back up after its loss rate from defaulters rose from one-fourth of 1% to three-fourths...
...first quarter, American, second biggest U.S. carrier, was deep in the red. In 1960, despite record revenues of nearly $2 billion, the nation's twelve domestic carriers together showed a profit of only $1,000,000. Back in 1949, when airlines were only doing one-fourth of the business they do now, they earned ten times their 1960 profit...
...members conceded that Verwoerd, at the end of the communique, might say a few words in rebuttal. At stake, as all were aware, was the unity of the Commonwealth-an informal association that (including colonies and dependencies) covers one-fourth of the earth, carries on one-fourth of world trade and contains one-fourth of the world's people, 86 million whites and 600 million coloreds...
...back in 1946--the same year, incidentally, that Harvard Provost Paul Buck reported "a paucity of applicants of the kind we most desire"--Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan foresaw in the steadily rising number of applications a real cause for concern. This, in '46, when Radcliffe received perhaps only one-fourth as many applicants as it does now for a freshman class virtually the same size: "'The very wealth of the applications from which we could draw raises, indeed, a subtle threat to education in a free society. Though we employed every device known to assist us in selecting...
...House has already collected one-fourth of its goal after soliciting some undergraduates and alumni...