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...time. Yet the line could not make the long-haul run pay off. Its year-round traffic estimates were too optimistic: its stations in four Florida cities cost more than they were worth, and it failed to push coach service, stuck to an 80%-20% first-class-tourist ratio while its competitors reaped the benefits of mass travel. The company's one small nod to economy last week: a 10% cut in salary for 18 top officers, for a saving of $40,000 a year, or about 1 10 of 1% of Capital's debts...
Reapportionment. The chief reason for the census, as laid out in the U.S. Constitution, is to ensure equal representation in Congress. The earliest census fixed the ratio at one representative for each 33,000 people, gave the House 105 members. The ratio kept changing through the years, un til 1929 when Congress froze maximum House membership at 435 (raised tempo rarily to 437 with the admission of Alaska and Hawaii) and fixed representation merely by dividing the population by that number: in 1950, it was one member for 345,000 people...
While there was a great deal of bearishness in Wall Street, there was still a strong difference of opinion about where the market was going. Many a broker felt that the decline had strengthened the market's stability by improving the price-earnings ratio of stocks and narrowing the spread in yields between stocks and bonds. (The spread has also been narrowed by the comeback of the bond market, which has caused the biggest drop in most bond yields in more than a year.) The market itself, having cleared its head of overoptimism, is now taking a more realistic...
...manufacturers' sales showed no signs of doing so. They were still running at their December high of $30.8 billion, were 9% ahead of last January. Furthermore, economists pointed out that the ratio of sales to inventories-which they consider more important than the independent figures-was above a year...
...Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Scripps). All are tough to get into, and worth it. The California group's freshmen come almost entirely from the top 5% of their high school graduating classes. Pennsylvania's Haverford has long been a sort of pocket Harvard, has an impressive faculty-student ratio of 1 to 7. Iowa's Grinnell is known as "the Harvard of the Midwest," and Oregon's Reed boasts one Rhodes scholarship for every 70 male graduates-the highest percentage in the nation...