Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While over a quarter of the students at Harvard College are in some way identified with Judaism, only a tenth of them are members of Hillel. The others hold a wide variety of political and religious views, according to the questionnaire, and a large number indicated that their ideas were still in a state of flux. Some of their answers indicated a confusion, or at least a transition in many attitudes towards religion...
...TRADE POLICY is being stiffened by Commerce Department, which approved only $6,626,960 of $21.8 million in applications for Soviet-bloc exports during first quarter this year v. $10,213,000 in last quarter of 1958 out of $16 million in applications. Among items banned: polyethylene, carbon-welded pipeline, stainless steel...
...options. Blough, who himself picked up most of his 19,302 shares of U.S. Steel stock (worth $1,800,000) through options, considers the incentive program "one of the great factors in the progress of the corporation." He points proudly to the fact that U.S. Steel's first-quarter profit of 9.9% on sales was the highest among the industry's major companies...
...home market as well as for export. This year Japanese consumers will spend $350 million for Japan-made radio and TV sets. Abroad, Japanese radios are being assembled in plants from the Philippines to Egypt. The U.S., which imported 2,300,000 Japanese radios last year, around a quarter of them for reexport, this year is buying at the annual rate of 3,600,000. Japanese manufacturers are not stopping with such consumer products. Three Japanese companies are rushing industrial computers to market, and some are even beginning to show an interest in bidding on U.S. defense contracts...
...businessmen met, the latest statistics from Washington underscored their forecasts. Gross national product was rising even faster than the preliminary estimates, reached an annual rate of $467 billion for the first quarter of 1959. More important, the gain was real: with hardly any price rise to speak of since last year, the new G.N.P. showed an 8% jump in constant dollars from the recession...