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Profits of airlines and aircraft builders continued to soar. Curtiss-Wright Corp. more than doubled 1953's fourth-quarter earnings, to $7,922,497; American Airlines raised 1953'-fourth-quarter profits...
...push the Dow-Jones industrial average as high as 500, nearly a 25% rise, predicts FORTUNE. Barring war and no recession worse than the 1953-54 slump, stock dividends will jump 48% by 1957, and 65% (to a total of $16.5 billion) by 1959. Gross national product will soar an estimated 16% to $440 billion in the next four years...
...years, the birth rate has shot up 88%, hitting 3,900,000 in 1953. If the same percentage of young people go to college by 1970 as at present (about 30%), enrollments will jump 75% to 4,219,047. Should the college percentage increase to 40%, enrollments might soar to well over 5,000,000. Thus, says Registrar Ronald Thompson of Ohio State University, "it is no longer appropriate to debate the extent of the need. The children have been born . . . We in higher education have just a few years in which to put our house in order...
Then, looking ahead from 1955 to 1965, the President made a prediction which eloquently capped his hearty confidence in the nation's economic health. Within ten years, he said, the gross national product, now $360 billion, will soar over the half-trillion* mark...
...larger public institutions offer increasingly dilute, impersonal education, private colleges will become all the more desirable, and multiple applications could soar frighteningly...