Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Anyone Anywhere. Today, the board has as members 125 colleges and universities as well as 21 school associations, all operating through an executive committee of 14 educators. That committee meets in Manhattan, decides policy, and appoints the "examiners" to make up its tests. Five times a year the tests go out to some 500 testing centers. Any student anywhere, with or without a high-school diploma, can apply to take them...
...good earnings and higher dividends had had a satiating effect and had certainly 'spread' the interest so widely through the list that there was not sufficient concentration of buying" behind any one stock. In short, there were so many good buys that investors simply could not make up their minds how to spend their money...
...agreed to a fee of $1. But it took Du Pont a long time to collect. Only last month did the Government pay off (because it took so long to terminate the contract). Last week Du Pont announced that it had signed up with the Atomic Energy Commission to make another dollar, this time by building the hydrogen bomb plant...
...again. Nor did it have any desire to hand more ammunition to Fair Deal trustbusters who have filed three suits attempting to break up the Du Pont organization. Last week the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock scored the paradoxical Government policy of trying to make Du Pont bigger and smaller at the same time. Wrote he: "When the Government needs skills and organizations to do big jobs, especially in the area of security, it must call upon those which often at the same time it is attempting to disperse by antitrust prosecutions. The instance...
...National Security Resources Board, under hustling Chairman W. Stuart Symington, last week announced a broad policy to speed up plant expansion, thus make more materials available for both rearmament and civilian goods. Under NSRB's policy, manufacturers will be able to make sizable tax savings by writing off new plants in five years (instead of as long as 50 at present), providing NSRB approves them as necessary for the defense program. Such approval would probably not be hard to get for many companies. Said Symington: a firm does not have to be making arms to take advantage...