Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...expressed regret that the Commission had been unable to grant the network an extension to broadcast due to excess radiation the WHRB system required, but according to a report from the station the technical situation is "looking brighter," and the directors hope to revamp the present system to enable further broadcasting under present FCC regulations...
...Present University plans call for an great an addition as possible to scholarship funds in the near future, in an attempt to "re-establish the level of the program that existed before the war as a minimum objective," in coordination with a quest for increased loan funds and student employment...
Computing machines are very expensive at present; Mark III cost $500,000. But they are becoming simpler, as well as more intelligent, and their cost can be cut enormously by commercial production methods. It is almost certain that they will come into wide use eventually. On Professor Aiken's desk are sheaves of letters from corporations eager to learn about the computers' potentialities...
...most important conclusion was that in prosperous times like the present the federal budget, instead of running $5.6 billion in the red, should be balanced. Admittedly, the U.S. should not commit itself to balancing the budget every year, the subcommittee said, for that would mean "drastic increases of tax rates or drastic reductions of Government expenditures during periods of deflation and unemployment, thereby aggravating the decline." But if the U.S. ran into the red in depression years, it had to show a surplus in prosperous years-and that meant...
Seldom in Wall Street's history had stocks climbed so steeply (about 25% increase in values) for so long (seven months) without a setback. Consequently, many a trader had been predicting a stumble in the present bull market. Last week it came-and as usual caught many an investor flatfooted...