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...might be expected another twenty cents of that dollar goes to undertaking costs, while two-hundred the of a cent for alteration rooms to be all that is spent in keeping abreast of the times. Half a cent removes all the rabbis, ten times that amount being mood to defray the expenses of House Administration...
...deserves the congratulations and thanks of both the public and the medical profession. For in these days of depression and low income, and of high cost of medical publications, many scientists and physicians have learned to rely upon the accurate scientific reports of such publications as TIME for keeping abreast of advances in science and medicine. In this manner you are rendering a signal service to the public, to science and to medicine. I hope that you will not permit yourself to be deterred from continuing to render such service by any biased or unenlightened criticism, or any self-interested...
...carfare. She registers at the Hotel McAlpin, convenient to the garment centre. After notifying the Times and the Women's Wear Daily of her arrival, she calls on her store's resident buyer, who is simply an agent employed to keep it abreast of style changes, make emergency purchases on request. At the resident buyer's office, the girl from Atlanta is assigned a small bare room with enough furniture for comfort but not enough to distract her from the business at hand. Already manufacturers' salesmen have begun to arrive. They line the corridor outside...
...steel industry stepped up operations from a year's low of 32% of capacity to nearly 40%. Machine tool buying for June was the best in five years, better than the 15 year average, and increasing contra-seasonally. The index of power production was abreast of October 1929. The Federal Reserve Board's index of department store sales advanced from 76 in May to 80 in June, and last week's retailing reports revealed a rising clamor for goods. F. W. Dodge reported home construction, key to the building industry, amounting to $49,000,000 in June...
...Abreast With The Times...