Word: summered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death of Commonwealth & Southern was about all that Wall Streeters seemed sad about last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.38 points to a new 1949 high of 185.36, well above what most traders had hoped for in what they had regarded as only the usual "summer rise...
...sagging refrigerator sales this summer, Joske's of Texas, a subsidiary of Allied Stores in San Antonio, went back to old-fashioned selling methods. Sales Promotion Vice President Jim Keenan plugged Frigidaires in splashy newspaper ads, cut out down payments and sent his 80 salesmen out to ring doorbells. Some used the old trick of following an ice wagon down the street to find householders still using iceboxes. One man stayed out so many nights selling that he finally decided to take his wife along: she talked to housewives while he cornered the husbands...
...January session is being arranged on International Economic Planning directed by an American economist assisted by two of the leading economies students at last summer's Seminar--English and Danish. A conference on American education has been tentatively scheduled for February...
According to the Director, the enlarged Winter Program will prepare more students for the intense work of the summer Seminar and better meet the need for knowledge about the U.S. in Europe...
Yesterday's meeting of the Executive Committee made nominations for next summer's faculty. The Seminar will invite two professors in each of the fields of American History, Economics, Literature, and Social Relations, and one each in Music, Philosophy, and Government...