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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rode from the Battery to City Hall in an open car (drawing a street crowd of 200,000 and a flattering paper shower) to receive an official reception from Mayor William O'Dwyer. In 72 hours he spoke at three banquets and three luncheons, paid post-midnight calls on a series of nightclubs, went to three museums, visited the Arab library at Princeton University and inspected the pressrooms of the Newark News...
English Catholics had winced when the 1944 Education Act was passed. Under its provisions for new schools, better buildings and an extra year of compulsory education (to age 15), the total cost for Catholics was estimated at ?10 million-over & above the regular taxes paid to support government schools. Catholic bishops duly informed education officials that they could not pick up so big a burden. Since then, soaring building costs and various other factors have upped the original estimates to somewhere between ?50 and ?60 million...
This is the reason why the School's graduates are so popular in the job market, and it's also the reason why the expensive Harvard education (tuition is $800 a year) can meet the increasing competition of be-paid-as-you-learn corporation training programs...
...felt that it ill behooved Bingham to criticize the members of a team which had spent over 220 hours of practice time, including the whole month of September, on Soldiers Field, and which made a considerable financial contribution to the H.A.A. through its efforts. After all, none were being paid, or even subsidized, and it was all purely voluntary work...
...profit-sharing plan (last year's bonus: $13 million). Though Eastman's earnings for the first nine months this year were down about 17% from 1948, it's common, stock dividend was higher ($1.70 v. $1.60 last year). Therefore, the bonus, based on the dividend paid to stockholders, was higher also. Paid to everyone employed before last October, the bonus consists of $25 for every $1,000 earned by an employee during the last five years. A man who had earned an average of $100 a week for five years would...