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...while fumbles hurt the varsity, it was the exploitation of the Crimson weak spot--the ends--and Ford's hard running through center that tied the game. Ford scored all three third-quarter touchdowns for the Bisons, while 12 of Bucknell's 29 second-half running plays were aimed at Harvard ends. On the rare occasions when this combination failed, quarter-back Stewart dropped back and passed for a first down...
Columbia got no breaks Saturday simply because the Crimson gave none. It kept the breaks and it kept the ball. Even though Columbia dug in (or slithered in) to stop one second-half Crimson drive, the abortive march only consumed time, not yardage...
...reported what businessmen thought about the rest of the year. Of the 131 major manufacturers in its survey, most thought that the record levels of employment (65 million) and gross national product ($385 billion) would hold up. Sales, production and capital expenditures might soar even higher. Half predicted that second-half profits would be even better than the year's first half, and more than three-fourths predicted that 1955 earnings before taxes would easily surpass 1954's. Said the N.I.C.B.: "Business in the remainder of 1955 will be just as good as it was during the record...
...answer was ominous: "In perhaps 15 years of intense work and arduous construction, we may, in the main, achieve a Socialist society, but to build a powerful country with a high degree of Socialist industrialization requires decades of effort-say 40 to 50 years, or the whole second-half of this century...
...ORDERS by manufacturers for machines and supplies are picking up so fast that the National Association of Purchasing Agents sees little chance of a second-half business letdown...