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...present the Yale Corporation and Provost Edgar S. Furniss are investigating methods of increasing faculty salaries despite an expected one million dollar deficit. Yale would like to raise the faculty budget some $750,000 but is reluctant to boost tuition in order to finance...
...mechanical changes are just as big. Chrysler, which already leads in power with its 235-h.p. V8, will boost it to 260 h.p. or better. De Soto (170 h.p.) and Dodge (150 h.p.) V-8s will also boost their horsepower. Plymouth, which poked along for years with a straight six-cylinder engine, will add a brand-new 150 h.p. V8. All cars will have new suspension systems, wider rear springs for more comfortable riding. Every line will now offer the full range of power equipment-power steering, power brakes, electric window lifts, power seats...
Although the boost was originally proposed by wool-state Congressmen as a defense measure, it was also their price for going along with the Administration's program of lower support prices for other agricultural products. Actually, the fatter subsidy could result in lower consumer prices for woolen goods, because Congress also decided that the 1955 clip should seek its own price level in a free market. The Government will make up the difference to growers out of the duties on wool imports. Under the present law, the Government guarantees the growers up to 90% of parity by buying...
Tuition and other student income amounted to $5,320,000 on the Faculty balance sheet, $1,190,000 more than two years ago, according to the financial report of Treasurer Paul C. Cabot. "The $200 boost accounted for $840,000, 70 per cent of this increase...
Panel House. To boost lumber sales, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association put on its first big national show in New York last week, and displayed the new "Lu-Re-Co" (for Lumber Research Council) house of pre-built panels. To show how easily the house can be put up (at an estimated 25% reduction in labor costs), the association built three of them on the spot (see cut). It has been selling plans for five different Lu-Re-Co three-bedroom houses ranging from $12,500 to $13,500, expects that more than 2,500 of them will...