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...senior men in each--for different reasons--are cool toward any all-out installation of group tutorial. The English Department has long offered individual instruction to all its Group-III-and-above men. In general, it tends to view and drastic change of this, in order to boost less promising non-honors men, as a move in the wrong direction. Further, only four of the senior professors can seem to find time for tutoring...
...Know." As Ockenga's fame has spread, offers have poured in to him from congregations across the country. In 1941 the First Presbyterian Church of Seattle offered its pulpit at a tempting boost in pay (a starting salary of $8,500 a year, with annual increases of $700 guaranteed up to $12,000). After nearly two months of soul-searching, Ockenga turned the offer down, to his congregation's surprise and joy. "Now what you say to us will mean more," said a member of his flock, and the Park Street Church has grown by 50% since that...
...once-sputtering airlines were purring like jets: American turned a $1,331,285 loss into a $2,914,610 profit. The building boom, nipped by restrictions on private housing, had merely shifted its base to the bigger boom of expanding defense production. As a result, Johns-Manville managed to boost its net from $3,928,551 in 1950-3 first quarter to $6,292,995 this year, a 59% gain...
...quarter profits the best in 1951. Said G.E.'s President Ralph J. Cordiner: "Our profit [for the year] may well be less than in 1950." But G.E.'s chief competitor, Westinghouse, after paying $26,688,550 for taxes v. $7,860,533 in 1950, still managed to boost its net from $11,890,377 to $16,692,898. Westinghouse President Gwilym A. Price took a cocky attitude toward the future. He said that Westinghouse would boost its sales fast enough to match, or better, 1950-5 income...
...felt, he predicted substantial price slashes, especially among swashbucklers who took advantage of shortages to charge all that the traffic would bear. For many businessmen who tried to hold the price line and got caught by the Jan. 26 freeze, the profit-margin plan would mean a boost in prices...