Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First of all, there is the problem of numbers. Dean Wilbur J. Bender, Chairman of the Admissions and Scholarships Committee, is perhaps the most worried about this problem. He has seen the number of applications rise to around 4,500 this year and is concerned with the Committee's ability to measure "the subjective factor," creative intellectual ability, in applicants numbering perhaps 10,000. "It's a question of how much money the College can afford to spend on admissions," he says, "We are spending too much money now as it is and we are barely able to keep afloat...
Though these measures may help some-what, there is no final solution to the problem, Elder continued. We can only wait and hope that the supply of teachers will eventually catch up with the demand as the sharp rise in the birth rate levels out, he added...
...approximately $400 per year for 10-12 working hours a week, faculty-aide salaries will probably not rise next year. The Committee had considered either paying all employees $500 per year, or devising a split salary schedule which would provide more for "needy" students than "non-needy" students, but decided to make no changes...
...first quarter, Borg-Warner Corp.'s President Robert S. Ingersoll announced a 45% hike in earnings, noted that Borg-Warner has "a very substantial portion" of the parts orders for the Ford and General Motors small cars. Admiral Corp., reported a profit on a sales rise of 15%. Said President Ross D. Siragusa: "All the bad things are behind...
...industries--which had been hardest hit by last year's recession--showed little more than the already predicted recovery rate, about one per cent. In fact, many of the new jobs in that field came from the steel industry, where pre-strike panic has produced an unnatural, impermanent job rise...