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...Manhattan this week, the Ford Foundation announced one of the largest single private grants to higher education in U.S. history: $50 million to help selected privately run colleges and universities boost faculty salaries. Recipients of the Ford grants (still unnamed) will be asked to supplement the gifts with funds raised from other sources...
...Mike Buchanan, who has reportedly played in three try-out games with the Chicago Blackhawks, teams with his twin brother Neil to boost the Michigan defense, while the sextet's offense is paced by Captain Bill MacFarlane and wing Tom Rendall...
...Yonkers, N.Y. Otis Elevator Co. had threatened to shut its plant (employing 2,100) and move to the Midwest because skyrocketing costs and increased competition threatened to price Otis out of its market. To keep the plant in Yonkers, workers voted three to one to boost efficiency and lower costs by a reduction of time-wasting, "nonproductive practices," and "conservation of tools and supplies." In return for the pledge, Otis promised not only to keep the plant but also, if the city cuts its taxes, to modernize...
...million bbls., 20 million more than in 1953 and 80 million more than in 1949. And with a record-breaking $39.5 billion worth of construction scheduled in 1955, industry leaders are embarking on big expansion programs. Lehigh Portland Cement Co. of Allentown, Pa. is spending $15 million to boost its annual capacity by 3.000,000 bbls.; Universal Atlas Cement Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary and the biggest producer, is spending an estimated $20 million on its Buffington plant in Gary. Ind., which will be the largest new production unit built in the past 15 years; New York's Lone...
...base for the new enthusiasm and optimism of cement men is President Eisenhower's proposal for a $101 billion, ten-year state and federal highway program. It is the biggest reason why they are ordering enough rock-crushers, conveyor belts, tube mills, rotary kilns and other equipment to boost the industry's capacity by about 30% in the next five years...