Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Industrial-minded Henry Ford keeps his 20,200 acres near Savannah hard at work growing cotton, rice and experimental rubber plants for his friend Thomas Edison. The U. S. Department of Agriculture is cooperating to try and develop the sappy seedlings of a U. S. raw rubber industry.
Two new departments took up a lot of space. Under the caption "Life Abroad" there were several columns of news briefs from all around the world, with a waggish commentary appended to each. The other department, of a similar nature, came out as Life at Home.
Shuttleworth is an editor who also reads books and things, particularly mystery stories and TIME. There is one department in his own magazine that he will read only under compulsion: the movies. He abominates them, and has yet to see a talkie.
"How will the Congress work with Hoover?" The question was and is often asked. An inkling of an answer appeared last week while the House Appropriations Committee was considering the Budget Bureau's figures for running the Department of Commerce next year. As a rule, if Congressmen have fault...
Born Borach, daughter of a French Jew who ran saloons in Newark, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Fannie Brice was romantic partly because she was homely and awkward. When she got a job in a department store she pretended she was starving and her father was blind; when the girls and the...