Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: "... life insurance agents have added 100 billions of dollars to the wealth of the United States." The above appears in TIME, May 6, contributed by A. H. Bennell, and has deprived me of breath for the moment. Mr. Bennell may be a good underwriter, but as an economist he...
In this development Harvard has necessarily played a large part. From the beginning the project had the warm support of President Eliot and the Harvard faculty without which it could scarcely have become firmly established. It was Harvard professors who gave their services, often at considerable sacrifice, to the construction...
Since one man is needed, the committee is opposed to a system of guidance by a faculty committee, functioning through a secretary. Such a system would first of all impose an enormous burden on the members of the committee, since guidance, to be more than mere information-giving, must involve...
Local unions determine the number of men to constitute a theatre orchestra according to the size and type of the house. The cost of maintaining even so small an ensemble as 15 men at the average wage of $60 per week is $46,800 a year, exclusive of a conductor...
Commodity Inflation. Always attacking, never merely defending, Mr. Simmons next proceeded to argue that to divert "the enormous masses of capital today invested in stock market loans'' into "commercial business" would "produce a huge rise in commodity prices, inflation of inventories, and an artificial business boom . . . which could...