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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two of Cornell University's oldest and most bibulous social societies, Majura and Beth L'Amed, were holding a joint initiation ceremony on the eve of the Christmas holidays, and everyone was having a wonderful time. Then, as part of his ordeal, 20-year-old Harry C. Melton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Consequences at Cornell | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Department stores had never seen anything quite like it. Across the land, a surge of buying sent sales to an alltime record the announcement that the short interest (i.e., the number of shares sold short in anticipation of a decline) had risen 61,311 shares in the last month to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Fast Finish | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Following the lead of U.S. Steel Corp., most of the other steel companies last week upped prices an average of $4 a ton, or 4%. The rise was to compensate for higher costs, including the steelworkers' new pension program. Bethlehem Steel Co. was the first of the big steelmakers to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Small Cost | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Because Bethlehem has been paying pensions, it will have to pay out only an additional $2,500,000 a year during the first five years of the new system's operation, said Grace. The total cost will be between $7,500,000 and $10 million a year. In addition, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Small Cost | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

While many a U.S. oilman realized that Britain had to conserve its dollars, some thought that the sudden ban was really an attempt to freeze U.S. oil out of the sterling area for good. Some Congressmen from the oil states were already up in arms: ECA, which must go before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Troubled Waters | 1/2/1950 | See Source »