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Thus far Cornell has approached the problem cautiously without attempting to adopt a single over-all plan. Most of the non-liberal arts undergraduates colleges have made provision for their students to take as many courses as possible, often up to one-fourth of their total college credits, outside their own specialized curricula, preferably in the Arts college. And considerable interchange does take place--the Arts college does almost half the undergraduate teaching in the University although it does not have nearly half the undergraduates...
...President Walter Reuther, had set the stage for conflict. He erased mention of the C.I.O. from his union contracts this year and even told newsmen not to describe the Steelworkers as C.I.O. He still paid $100,000 monthly dues to the C.I.O. for his 1,200,000 members (nearly one-fourth of the national C.I.O.'s revenues and strength), but a dramatic break seemed likely at the convention. Reuther was snubbed; no national C.I.O. officials were invited...
...billion, profits at $15 million a month after taxes. In sales, Ford has pulled ahead of U.S. Steel, is running neck and neck with Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) for second place (after General Motors). Most of Ford's plants are new; the others are completely modernized. One-fourth of Ford's $1.5 billion postwar profits have been paid out in dividends. For one single year (1950) the Ford Foundation received a dividend check of $86.6 million, or $28 a share. At the end of 1953, net worth of the company had risen to an all-time high...
Deadpan Horrors. The pieces range from straight reporting to short stories, from personal reminiscences to literary criticism, with a sprinkling of poetry. Close to one-fourth of the book is taken up with unsparing accounts of World War II. Expertly written-if by now rather familiar-are the deadpan horrors of Alan Moorehead's graphic Belsen and the explosive shock of a Sunday-morning air raid in London as described by William Sansom in Building Alive. Often, Horizon's writers add a reflective dimension to war reporting possible only to men who have known a country before...
...surgical patients studied in ten university hospitals over a five-year period (1948-52), 384 died of anesthesia, a ratio of one death to 1,560 patients. Nearly one-fourth of all surgical deaths attributed to causes other than patients' own ailments were from anesthesia...