Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experience of the management and with the company's ideas on progress. The training period covers from a month or six weeks to two years. In the shorter courses the training is intensive and in the longer ones it is combined with actual store practice. In each case the attempt is made to instruct the trainee in various selling and non-selling functions and to give a certain amount of practice in the various phases of Merchandising and Management work...
...this Island commodity, he said, would be a "betrayal of trust by the U. S. toward a dependent people." He argued that Philippine sugar, less than one-fifth of U. S. consumption, does not affect the domestic market, that the attempt to limit Philippine sugar came not from the U. S. beet-sugar industry but "directly from those interests which have invested in Cuban sugar." He denied that domestic sugar interests could increase their production if importation from the Philippines were restricted...
...organizations with high sounding titles which, it is possible, consist of an office on the fifth floor and a letterhead. I think the letter itself of no value, but even if it were valuable I believe it very improper that an outside individual, probably having no authority whatever, should attempt to influence the opinion of this Commission...
...holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular field, its buildings rising in height as they recede from the centre. Next month at Cleveland, engineers will meet with architects, city planners, and flyers in an attempt to design best types of airports for various services. Lack of ports, like lack of trained flyers, is hampering the U. S. air industry. Flyers consider Croydon, near London, and the Tempelhof, near Berlin, at present the best equipped fields in the world. German flyers say Croydon...
...shadow over such efforts, the underlying economic and political significances may be found to be of some import. The present organization, founded on a sound mechanical basis, has at least a greater opportunity than the confusedly related bodies that surround it, to arrive at a conclusion worthy of the attempt...