Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daylight saving." But some skulls will not comprehend that a day is the same, no matter what the hours are called. Similarly some Italians could not understand last week that it makes no difference what a man's wage or profit is, so long as he can buy the same amount of goods or labor for it. Quite naturally there was discontent because this thing was hard to understand, and there was trouble because it was hard to apply...
...Interstate Commerce Commission last week rejected Leonor Fresnel Loree's proposal to create the Kansas City Southern System in the southwestern states, by having the Kansas City Southern Railway buy up the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katie") and the St. Louis Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt...
...Purchasing Department at Harvard is a voluntary service offered to the departments of the University, and not a compulsory one. It is here for use, if it is found useful. It will buy a broom or a chemical, or a thousand brooms, but only when it is asked to do so. It will supply information, if asked, as to the best broom, or the cheapest broom, or the broom that is the best value for the money. Or it will buy a particular, specified broom it will buy a specified broom from a specified firm. If not otherwise instructed...
...possible. Are there blue books enough for the final examinations? Is there anything in that last glue we brought which will injure valuable prints that are to be mounted with it? "The last mimeograph paper dries fast enough, but we can't write on it." How can we buy paper that will absorb ink quickly and yet will not absorb...
Perhaps one of the most pleasing aspects of this work is the relations formed with Harvard graduates. We want information, prices, forecasts. Is coal going up or down? How about oil? Where can we buy this or that? Where are the trade customs and agreements? We must have advice on legal or other points. We have only to ask a graduate, tell him that the information is for Harvard, and every door is opened for us, every book is at our disposal, and even the busiest official seems glad to interrupt his work and give us all the time...