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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many children have apparently come to believe that Government and industry have a sort of duty to get them through school. As one California fifth-grader wrote: "Will you Please send me some pitures of Pennsylvania Because I'am study Pennsylvaina In school. I need pictues of Penn. very bad. So please send me some pictures. If I don't get some picturs I will flop in school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Delinquent Teachers | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...past five years Financier Leopold Dias Silberstein, 52, has swept up 20 companies into his Penn-Texas Corp., sometimes by stock swaps after a tough proxy fight. Last week, driving for his biggest prize of all, Chicago heavy-equipment maker Fairbanks, Morse & Co. (TIME, March 12), Silberstein ran into a brass-knuckled pier 6 brawl. The opposition came not from Fairbanks, Morse but from within Silberstein's own camp. In a New York Federal Court, dissident stockholders demanded an accounting of Silberstein's management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Sight for Fairbanks, Morse | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Worrying the rebels was the fact that the market value of Penn-Texas stock has slumped from this year's high of $19.62 to last week's $12.37. Charged a leader of another dissident group, Attorney Alfons Landa (who is also chairman of the executive committee of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and holder of 1,400 shares of Penn-Texas): "This case is alarmingly similar to Sydney Albert's Bellanca [TIME, Oct. 22]. In Bellanca, Albert had a whole safe full of unissued shares, which he traded for shares of other companies to gain control of them." Answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Sight for Fairbanks, Morse | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Good Deal. Silberstein and friends, said the protesting stockholders in the court complaint, bought 100,000 shares of Fairbanks, Morse for $33 apiece, then sold them to Penn-Texas at $43 for a personal profit of $1,000,000. They further charged that Penn-Texas this year bought 200,000 shares of Fairbanks, Morse at an excessive price ($45), raised the money by borrowing and by selling and leasing back Penn-Texas properties. As a result, they said, banks were threatening to call Penn-Texas loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Sight for Fairbanks, Morse | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Sebo, who came to Penn in 1953, did not win a game in his first two seasons, but this year picked up four victories, including a 28 to 14 uset over a favored Crimson eleven. A campus poll at the end of his second losing season gave a vote of confidence to the coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Varsity Football Lettermen Vote Against Rehiring of Coach | 12/8/1956 | See Source »

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