Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...metropolitan department store. 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...
...instruments, rubber devices and index cards in their arms, herded the six women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves on guard. The wagons growled away, angrily jeered by the women on the sidewalk. Thus was the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (TIME, March 18) raided last week. A policewoman, one Josephine McNamara, mother of two grown children, had reported that the clinic was giving out demoralizing information and advice...
...Valley roads - are prominent in the present rail-merger performance. Headliners of this program are the Two Van Sweringens, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. To the Interstate Commerce Commis sion came last week a somewhat peculiar request. Briefly, the petitioner - Nickel Plate R. R. - asked permission to acquire stock control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie road. Oddity of the request lay in the fact that last month the I. C. C. ordered the Nickel Plate to dispose of all its holdings in Wheeling & Lake Erie. This order has not been rescinded, but the Van Swer-ingens (Nickel Plate owners) blandly...
...follows: The I. C. C. order told Nickel Plate, New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio to dispose of their Wheeling stock. The New York Central and the B. & O. anticipated this order by transferring their stock to Allegheny Corp., Van Sweringen holding company. Objection might be taken to joint control of the Wheeling by three roads, but its control by one road is quite another matter...
...Manhattan, one Chick Gum, Chinese cafeteria cook, was tossing flapjacks in the hurry of early trade one morning last week. Of one jack he lost control. Flapping high, it curved down into the open neck of the Gum undershirt. Chick Gum yowled, got a doctor...