Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Hall, the issue remains undecided, since there have been no applicants from the closed high schools thus far this year. Until an applicant appears--and there have been only two or three on the average in past years--there is no need for a final policy...
Stephen A. Aaron '57, John G. Eyre '58, and Dean Gitter '56 will manage the undertaking. Aaron, who has directed over 30 productions in the past five years, most of them at Harvard, will direct each of this season's offerings. Eyre will serve as treasurer and business manager, and Gitter will devote his time to acting...
...dirty tire plants of Akron or the hot, badly ventilated assembly lines of Detroit, 15, 20, 25 years ago." Union leaders realize that they have come a long way since then. Says Jerry Holleman, president of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O. council: "We have made substantial gains in the past few years and are at a point where we do not push as hard...
...Over the past ten years, air freight, parcel post, bus and truck lines have cut into the Railway Express business. (To pick up 100 Ibs. of furniture in New York City and deliver it in Chicago via Railway Express costs $12.26 v. $4.60 on a private trucking line.) The agency's traffic declined from 193.1 million shipments in 1947 to 73.5 million in 1957, and the downtrend continued in 1958. Revenues dwindled from $428 million in 1947 to $358 million in 1957 despite eleven rate increases...
...passenger mileage, second highest increase in the industry (after Northeast, which rose 65% on the wings of its new Miami routes). Nyrop did it by selling off eight of the aged, unpressurized DC-3s in Northwest's fleet, bringing in 24 DC-6Bs and DC-7Cs in the past two years...