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Dickey added the increase in part reflected the same general inflation in costs that has led other Ivy League schools to raise charges for next year. Yale increased its tuition by $200 last November, and Princeton followed in January with a $150 boost...
...completed their two-year tour of duty in the regulars. With the aid of pay reforms and new G.I. benefits, the Defense Department could make the regular army as attractive as six-month service. While the Administration recently raised the pay for career servicemen, a general pay boost for all army members might reap more first enlistments. Tremendous jumps in the enlistment rate during January because of the termination of veterans' benefits on February 1 showed the effectiveness of retirement benefits and other G.I. rights in producing volunteers. The expected cuts in the standing army and elimination of the provisions...
With these words in New Orleans last week, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the President's special emissary to Latin America in 1953, set the keynote for a new kind of economic conference. Its purpose: to boost future U.S. investment in Latin America through a partnership of businessmen instead of governments. The first Inter-American Investment Conference achieved a notable goal: in many a deal North Americans tentatively agreed to furnish capital for Latin America...
Sponsored by the city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., the idea got its first big boost after last year's Rio Conference where Latin American hopes for U.S. Government loans so greatly overshadowed private economic cooperation that little was accomplished. But in New Orleans, under the spur of Shipping Tycoon (Mississippi Shipping Co.) Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of the city's trade-minded International House, private businessmen were eager to carry the ball. The Latin American delegations came prepared with a 50-page prospectus of more than 300 specific projects in their home countries to show...
...poor locations and have either gone out of business or barely make ends meet. Even the most successful motelmen have problems of rising costs and bitter competition. Since 1945, construction costs have gone up from an average $2,500 a room to nearly $5,500, with 15% of the boost in the last two years...