Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted with interest your account in the Oct. 19 issue regarding the "Off the Beaten Path" trip operated out of Chicago by the Pennsylvania Railroad. This was a unique experiment in transportation and doubtless will be the forerunner of many such trips in this part of the country just as the trip in the East was the forerunner of many more there...
Sitting on the boards of 31 corporations, restless little Sidney Weinberg started in Goldman Sachs as a porter in 1907 after a short Manhattan career as a newsboy and Western Union messenger. It was years before the partners even knew him by name. By his own account he got ahead by being "such a fresh kid." During the War he was cook on a submarine chaser, until yanked into the Navy's Intelligence Department. Brilliant, blunt, energetic, he takes vast interest in the affairs of any company in which he is a director. Occasionally at board meetings he pulls...
Excelling in his portraits of children and young married folk. Author Weller finds his hardest going in sketches of addled Bohemians and wistful old maids, breaks down entirely in his account of a nudist, makes little progress with his concluding story of an aged widow who looks forward to still greater mechanical marvels and wants to live to see them. His book is too crowded with well-to-do eccentrics to be a representative U. S. study. But literary motorists will object most to its pace, and reflect that no nation of murderously fast drivers ever chugged along so safely...
...than are many non-scientific courses. Obviously a man cannot "relax in the lab" every evening instead of getting his usual eight hours, but at least the physical movement entailed will help to keep his mind alert and on the job at hand. When these matters are taken into account, it might be considered more pertinent to close the libraries in the evenings than the various laboratories...
...killed last year in an airplane crash in Switzerland. A series of sketches of gold mining on the Rand, South Africa, it is based on Nesbitt's experiences as an engineer there in 1912 and is written with considerable literary distinction. It is noteworthy for its account of the great miners' strike of 1913, for its sketches of Nesbitt's fellow-miners, for some poetic but subdued descriptions of life 7,000 ft. underground...