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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part, Gov. Furcolo has been running on his record, emphasizing the positive achievements of his administration. He is especially proud of his educational program, which will provide for the establishment of nine junior colleges and large amounts of state and private scholarship funds...
...majority leader under former Governor Herter, Gibbons supported the expansion of the state debt by over $600 million--70 per cent of the current total--so that the blame cannot rest entirely on Furcolo's shoulders. Furthermore, Gibbons has shown reactionary tendencies in his voting record in the state General Court. He opposed the establishment of a state Fair Employment Practices Commission and voted against raising the minimum wage on four separate occasions...
...Governor, Furcolo has spent more than any other executive in state history. Inflation is one cause of this record and debt retirement has proved very expensive. Massachusetts has the largest per capita state debt in the nation, despite the existence of a high state income tax, extra excise taxes and local property levies that pass $90 per $1,000 valuation in Boston. (However, it should be pointed out that part of Furcolo's expenditure has gone to provide additional housing for the elderly, to establish nine state junior colleges, and to reconstruct the inadequate state road system...
...Surely you've got the general idea by now and won't object if we use an abbreviated form for the rest of our calculations. We'll record a game such as the last mentioned by simply saying: Syracuse over Cornell by 55 (58)--the figure in parentheses representing Harvard's advantage at any given point in the process...
Campbell Soup Co. stockholders also got good news. In the company year just ended, Campbell for the first time pushed sales over the half-billion mark, earned a record $31,530,460 v. $29,949,148 the year before, Minneapolis-Honeywell (regulators) had the best third-quarter in its history in both sales and earnings. It earned $5,847,624 v. $4,143,615 for the July-September period of 1957. Even where business has been worst, in the railroads, there was good news. Pennsylvania Railroad, operating in the red for most of this year, reported that in September...