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...rang up $3,908,872, for 41% more profit than last year. United Airlines revenues rose 11% over the $50,381,000 of a year ago, and President W. A. Patterson prophesied that revenues would rise 50% in the next five years. Chemicals reacted unevenly. While preliminary reports from Du Pont and Monsanto indicated profit declines, Dow Chemical's net advanced 38% to $14,282,841, and General Aniline's rose 90% to $1,450,000. Western Union reported a profit of $3,207,000, its best earnings in a quarter century...
...treat people right, most big corporations, e.g., Ford, Alcoa, G.M., now employ top-level executives to concentrate exclusively on community relations. On the other hand, Du Pont, which operates 69 plants in 25 states, says each plant manager is "Mr. Du Pont in his community . . . the way he runs his plant constitutes the major part of Du Pont's public relations program...
Social sciences are taught at the College European on the Left Bank's Boulevard St. Germain. Also in July, the Ecole du Louvre will hold month long courses on "The Archaeology of the Middle Ages" and "Modern Painting." An "American Summer Course" of liberal arts is available at the Sorbonne, starting July 1. A special course is even offered to those who are interested in "aerial photogrammetry" by the Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques in the month of June. Tutition fees for most courses...
Thanks to the millions of the fabulous Du Fonts who live and die there, Delaware is a very solvent state these days. It led off fiscal 1955 with a $7,500,000 surplus, piled up almost entirely by a $7,250,000 inheritance tax windfall from the estate of Industrialist Lammot du Pont, who died in 1952. Lately, however, alarmists in Delaware have cried that rising costs would put the state in the red by the end of fiscal 1956. Last week State Auditor Clifford Hall pacified his fearful fellow citizens, reminded them of the bittersweet fact that Industrialist Eugene...
...professionals gathered in Caltech's Dabney Hall in Pasadena were well qualified to speak on the subject. Among them: M.I.T.'s President James R. Killian Jr., Caltech's President Lee A. Du-Bridge, M.I.T.'s Dean (engineering) Carl Richard Soderberg, Caltech's Physicist and Mathematician Robert F. Bacher, M.I.T.'s Gordon S. Brown (electrical engineering). Almost without exception M.I.T. and Caltech freshmen are the scholastic cream skimmed off the top 10% of national high school enrollment. "It's the rare Caltech student whose IQ falls below 130," explained Psychologist Weir. "The average...