Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national economic planning organization" plus "an import control board" and "a commodity board" are to "aim at building within the Commonwealth a civilization high enough to absorb the production of modern machinery," thus restoring Prosperity...
...logical step in the direction of a scientific understanding of human relations has been taken by the University in the establishment of a Division of Sociology. The new Division will absorb the present Department of Sociology and Social Ethics and will also include many courses now given in the Division of History, Government, and Economics. To these it will add many new courses of its own. Yale, in its Institute of Human Relations, and the University of Chicago have already realized the need for official recognition of a field which has grown steadily since the first impetus given...
...refrigerator affiliate, Majestic Household Utilities Corp., could make good use of new funds. The hasty withdrawal of Mr. Grunow, guessed some Chicagoans, paved the way for assistance from bankers who had never been fond of the second half of the Grigsby-Grunow team. Last week Grigsby-Grunow planned to absorb cash-poor Majestic Household Utilities, to sell a $5,000,000 bond issue. Majestic's creditors will be called upon to take $2,000,000 worth of the bonds...
...million men and his use of it to bring Allied success. What was awaited as of the largest historical importance was General Pershing's account of his struggle to preserve the national entity of U. S. forces against the persistent efforts of French and British army chiefs to absorb them into their commands...
...contrast to German universities is no indication of a lack of intellectual interest among American students. In Germany the universities have had a tradition for interest in national and international affairs since the reorganization of Prussia under Baron Stein in 1808. Extracurricular activities, unknown in the Fatherland, absorb a large percentage of the undergraduate's time in this country, which might be devoted to discussion. Notwithstanding, the attitude of unconcern adopted by college men toward politics and foreign affairs is surprising to those familiar with the more mature outlook of European Universities. This unconcern is exemplified by the meagre interest...