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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antibodies. Now the better-heeled families are dutifully getting Salk shots early and often. The people at the bottom of the economic ladder have learned enough about health protection to get their babies up out of the yard filth, but not enough to have their youngsters vaccinated. As a result, paralytic polio (2,499) struck hardest at children from low-income groups...
...good. The Agriculture Department predicted last week that net farm income in 1959 may drop 5% to 10% below 1958, after a year of the highest farm profits in five years (see chart). Hog and poultry prices are expected to decline, and crop prices will be lower as a result of this year's record crop and surpluses. Next year's crop may be equally large, or larger, partly because the Government will scrap soil-bank payments to farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made this year. On the other hand...
...last ten years to 4,000,000, the number of shares listed has increased only 2½ times, to 4.9 billion. This year the situation has worsened; with industry operating below capacity in the recession, it had little need to go out after additional capital to expand. Result: the New York Stock Exchange added only 112 million new shares for the first nine months this year, compared to 271 million added in the same period last year and 544 million...
Today the Clubs' problems are not so dramatic as wars or depressions. Rather they are the result of gradual changes in the College itself. With rising standards of admission at Harvard, less and less "club material" from the Eastern prep schools is being accepted into the University. And the "preppies" that do come are often so interested in their academic work or else forced to spend so much time on their studies that they don't use the Club as much more than an occasional convenience. There is a good deal of grumbling from graduates in the Club lounges that...
Today the Clubs' problems are not so dramatic as wars or depressions. Rather they are the result of gradual changes in the College itself. With rising standards of admission at Harvard, less and less "club material" from the Eastern prep schools is being accepted into the University. And the "preppies" that do come are often so interested in their academic work or else forced to spend so much time on their studies that they don't use the Club as much more than an occasional convenience. There is a good deal of grumbling from graduates in the Club lounges that...