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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight-nine percent of the Class of 1949 has already landed jobs, although only about a third of the positions were secured through the Placement Office. A total of 215 firms sought Business School men through the office last year, but placement directors claim that "things look a bit tougher for this year...
...dams in Washington and California. The electricity produced by these plants is either sold to private distributors or brought to the consumer through publicly-owned lines. Secondly, there are municipally-owned power plants, mostly financed by the Rural Electrification Administration. Together, these methods produce about 20 percent of the nation's power...
...other side, the utilities argue that the lower rates are a sham. Private companies pay 16 percent taxes while public ones pay six or seven percent in lieu of taxes. Public plants can also obtain finances at a low interest rate from the REA while the private company must go to the money market. This last argument has less significance that it used to because of the fallen interest rate. But these companies insist that the tax differential amounts to a subsidy of the public plants. Their argument is summed up in a caption that appeared under a picture...
There is some justification for pointing up Lewis, and the author documents it: "In the year of 1937 John L. Lewis and his activities took in the New York Times 99,816 column inches or 4.2 percent of the total news coverage for the year, foreign or domestic. This meant that about one-twentieth of the New York Times day in and day out was devoted to Lewis and his operations." Lewis is now, and always has been, a big man in American unionism: this cannot be denied, even by his most rabid enemy. But a good biographer must balance...
About ten percent of the University's Red Feather quota remains to be raised, Robert H. Haynes, chairman of the Harvard Unit of the Community Fund, reported yesterday...