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...cost of the new equipment was only $22,000, well within the means of the moneymaking News, and only one-fourth the price of conventional presses. The campus daily may well prove what many newsmen suspect, that new processes have radically cut the high cost of going into the newspaper business...
...families all over the U.S., reported their findings last week in the A.D.A.'s Journal. Four out of five (80.7%) of the brushes were useless or actually "dangerous" (because they might irritate the gums); three-fourths of these had bent, broken or matted bristles; one-fourth were regarded as unsanitary...
Tire men happily admitted that they had badly misjudged demand. With over 4,000,000 cars and trucks coming off assembly lines this year, they now thought they could sell 80 million tires in the next twelve months. That would keep production one-fourth above the prewar level well into...
Last week London's Marriage Guidance Clinic presented to the International Congress on Mental Health (see above), a "little Kinsey Report" based on a study of 1,000 married couples. Some of the findings : more than half had "basic sex problems"; one-fourth showed "gross sex ignorance"; only 25 had read a book of sexual instruction; almost one-third of the wives were unsatisfied sexually...
Interestingly enough, about half of the seniors are headed for jobs in the professions. One-fourth of the women plan to become teachers and 11% of them signified their intention of becoming housewives. About 3% of both sexes are going to do graduate work. Very few (1.5%) are interested in Government jobs...