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Such long range financial factors are important, but immediate needs also cut down the number of students who aim at graduate work in the arts and sciences. Many families are willing to make the cash outlay necessary for graduate study if they think it will result in the same financial success offered by law or business. But they will think twice before allowing a son to continue his studies in medieval political philosophy...
...horizon was not cloudless. Industry planned to spend about 5% less ($20.7 billion) on new plants and equipment than in 1954, largely because of a 40% spending cut by automakers from the record $1.3 billion new-model outlay in 1954. Some industries, e.g., textiles and coal, were still in trouble. The farm problem was still tremendous. Though Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson won a notable victory in his fight for flexible supports-and farmers, like investors, seemed willing once again to take a chance-the surplus commodities held by the Government totaled $6.6 billion at year...
...funds for every justified project. To place new lockers in Dudley's basement would take $12,000 and even the modest addition of a pool table would cost $750. A complete renovation or Dudley, including indirect lighting, painted concrete, partitioned areas, and murals on the wall would require on outlay of around $50,000, according to Architects Collaborative...
...total of $17.1 billion will be required for all U.S. public schools to match the 1954 top outlay (by New York State, which spends $356 per year per pupil...
Inside the Question. Amid the furor on Capitol Hill, Dwight Eisenhower threw his weight more firmly than ever behind the Dixon-Yates plan for building a $107 million private power plant at West Memphis, Ark., and against the alternative of making a Government outlay of about that much for additional Tennessee Valley Authority steam-generating capacity. The question involved, the President pointed out, is broader than Dixon-Yates. It is: Should the Federal Government perpetually expand its role in the power industry? In a letter to Chairman "Stub" Cole of the Joint Committee, the President wrote: "If the Federal Government...