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...over the U.S., the gap between what the Negro now achieves and what he might achieve indicates that he is the nation's most wasted human resource. Some of Potential's tables show the school experience as of 1950 of young Southern Negro men. Most of them came from poor, unstable families; many had stunted intellectual potentials before they ever arrived at school. In the 18-19-year age group, 1.7% never got to school at all. Of this group, 17.7% completed only one to four years of school. High-school diplomas were won by only...
...drop in prices, which had put the market in the same position where it had found strong support in the last two big corrections (see chart), had made some of the blue chips inviting again. Investors who had shifted out of blue chips as their rise narrowed the gap between the yield on the stocks v. the yield on bonds, now had good reason to go back into them again...
...saving grace of the proposal, for it at least permitted the United States to act with speed and decisiveness. In limiting the President's authority in the field of foreign aid, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has voided his power to make long-term commitments, stop-gap emergency gifts, and loans to countries which hesitate to accept private investments from American companies. In order to receive aid, a country like Iran would have to allow the return of those American oil companies which it previously expelled. The committee halved the $40 million the President desired as his discretionary fund...
...Harvard closed the gap to half a length, the Tiger cadence of 31, which it maintained through the body of the race, rose methodically to 34 and the shell crept steadily ahead. Despite a final burst, which took the stroke to 38, the Crimson fell behind--apparently spent by an effort which in any other year and against any other crew would have meant victory...
...animal country. The lions did not bother them much, but they had some buffalo scares. In tall-grass country they set up prefabricated 100-ft. towers and did their surveying from platforms on their tops. When finished, they would move, towers and all, to an unsurveyed area. The last gap, Khartoum to Uganda, was completed...