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Williams still has nice boys, but they work harder. When Baxter arrived, the average grade was Dplus. It is now between C-plus and B-minus on a tougher scale. Combatting the old image, Williams has boosted scholarships and student aid more than sixfold. About 30% of Williams men receive such aid, and 50% of them are products of public education rather than prep schools...
This hard way of getting out oil has now become a hot way. In the past ten years secondary-recovery operations have increased sixfold, though they still account for only 5% of Texas' 80 million bbl. monthly output...
Puerto Rico's warm sun (362 days yearly; 78° mean temperature, only 6° variation between summer and winter) alone had not melted the hotelmen; they had studied Puerto Rico's tourist prospects. In eleven years tourism has jumped sixfold to become Puerto Rico's third industry, with a $31 million annual volume -more than the tourist trade of all the South American countries combined...
...Money in circulation multiplied eightfold, the cost of living sixfold...
Five and Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, one of the future's richest men, turned 21, was cheered by the gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz and races in a scarlet Maserati, was uncheered on getting the boot from the Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits...