Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim for credit in securing the reduction. Meanwhile, large steel orders by the motormakers are probably two months off, for the auto companies have enough steel on hand to last until large scale production begins on 1940 models and want to be sure their big buying is done at the bottom, not on the way down. Aggressive National Steel Co., always up front among the price cutters, admitted that it didn't "know what the price is," was reported taking fill-in business from all comers to be rolled in one lot when enough of it accumulates. Ponderous...
...completed. The American Institute of Accountants, chief C.P.A. professional association, also launched an investigation. Last week it issued its report, tantamount to an order to all Institute Accountants from now on. Its chief decision: that good auditing procedure calls for actual corroboration of inventories by physical tests, heretofore usually done only on specific request by the company...
...Horizons in American Art (September 1936), first big show of work done on the Federal Art Project...
Since then Nelson Rockefeller has thought of art, and now thinks of the Museum of Modern Art, as a quality of style that can just as well pervade as it can be at odds with modern commercial society. He is proud of the pioneer work the Museum has done, prouder that "last year our traveling shows were exhibited in over 250 cities and towns. . . ." He admires the great art collectors but has not emulated them. He buys sculpture for his desk (last week he had a woodcarving by William Steig), paintings for his walls, wishes that all men could...
...Union is not alone to be congratulated. With the possible exception of his recent appointment of Professor Ferguson to the key post of Faculty Dean, President Conant has done nothing that will do more to endear him to the doubting liberals in the college world than his gesture of good will to the Union...