Word: audition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the status of the Merchant Fleet Corp. as a body responsible primarily to the U. S. Shipping Board whose officers were its managers, Congress never until last week received an audit of the corporation's books. When that audit came, from Comptroller-General John Raymond McCarl, great was the shock to watchdogs of the public treasury...
...register in four courses instead of five. Each study group must, however, include the course in Business Policy, two courses in the chosen field of specialization, and a choice of one or two electives in another field. If a student takes four courses, he will be allowed to audit either one course or two courses, preferably outside his field of concentration. If he enrolls in five courses, he may not attend any other course...
Students who intend to audit one or more courses are not to sign up for these courses on registration day but are requested to arrange for them through one of the assistant deans in Morgan Hall, between Monday and October...
Mounting postal deficits have caused President Hoover much anxiety. This year's loss is estimated at $100,000,000. The President instructed Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown to discover the causes of, to devise remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase...
...Whereas years ago the small individually owned and operated institution was run by a man of native genius and little or no system, today there is probably more actual system and organization in the retail store than in any other organization. Such terms as Inventory Control, Organization Statistics, Sales Audit, etc. which are common enough in these enlightened days, would have been utterly unimaginable twenty-five or fifty years...