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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Business School's 1951-52 profit of $58,825.29 had dropped to a profit of $961.99 for the 1952-53 fiscal year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Loses $58,000 by Increase in Costs | 11/27/1953 | See Source »

...Council for Financial Aid to Education, a newly formed non-profit organization, will start immediately to publicize the possibility of tax benefits to business corporations making contributions to educational institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Begins Appeal To Corporations for Grants for Colleges | 11/25/1953 | See Source »

Leighton added that he is still "deeply concerned" about the ticket problem, however. He said that the Faculty Committee on Athletics, in its meeting Dec. 7, will continue to investigate charges that complimentary and preferred tickets were sold at a profit this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigation Fails to Yield Evidence of Ticket Scalping | 11/25/1953 | See Source »

...when the bonds were issued last week, they brought the federal debt just $25 million under the $275 billion limit, so close that the debt could easily spill over. So Humphrey dug into the Treasury's "free gold"-the profit realized in 1934 when President Roosevelt devalued the dollar (by increasing the price of gold from $20.67 to $35 an ounce). Using $500 million of the $1 billion left in the hoard, Humphrey bought U.S. securities from the Federal Reserve System and cut the debt by $500 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold to the Rescue | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Money." National's first big move into chemicals was to build an $11.5 million plant for producing metallic sodium and chlorine at Ashtabula, Ohio; with sales of $8,500,000 a year, it now has the highest profit margin of any National division. Next, Bierwirth paid $6,700,000 for a 25% interest in U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. (industrial alcohol, antifreeze, resins, etc.), has since merged the company with National. He then bought a 20% interest in Intermountain Chemical Corp. (soda ash), and for $4,500.000 bought Algonquin Chemical Co., Inc. (caustic soda, sulphuric acid, chlorine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: From Corn to Gas | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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