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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approximately 100 companies, less than in the past five years, are expected to send representatives to interview job applicants here. Some companies which are spending less money on recruiting are not sending personnel men to colleges this year, the Placement Office said, and will expect job applicants to take the initiative in establishing contacts with firms...
Monro pointed out, however, that very few veterans beyond the Class of 1950 have sufficient entitlement to carry them past graduation from college...
...play has some funny lines, but not many; and some nice performances, especially Dauphin's. The outstanding thing about it is its phenomenal memory: it exploits every type of gag, farce twist or comedy situation that ever made good in the past. It is one more of the Rodgers & Hammerstein-produced hits (John Loves Mary, Happy Birthday) that give the obvious and the mediocre a finishing-school education, and that hug a safe, tried formula on the theory of nothing venture, nothing lose...
...takes more than the push of a button to get results. Even with higher prices, said Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s President Ben Moreell, his company expects lower profits per ton this quarter than in the first nine months of 1949. As for dividends, said he, over the past 27 years they have averaged only 1.6% of the asset value of J. & L. stock. To give stockholders a fair return of 8% under present tax allowances for depreciation, Moreell figures that J. & L. would have to boost prices another $17 a ton. (He told newsmen later that...
...Zizendorf, a neo-Nazi who plans to free Germany from Leevey, its American overlord. Zizendorf lives in a boarding house run by Madame Stella Snow, who symbolizes the eternal Germany of ruthless energy and strength. Among the other boarders are a hungry duke, a relic of the Kaiser-ruled past; a drunken census taker who personifies perennial German officialdom ready to serve any master; Herr Stintz, the typical "little man" whose futility is expressed in nocturnal tuba-playing, and Jutta, Zizendorf's cowlike mistress, who wants only the warmth of love...