Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naval Academy refused to have any truck with the Army footballers, and the Big Ten for the past three years has banned games with Army. Nevertheless, West Point officials insisted that athletics were as much a part of Army requirements as book learning and every cadet should have an equal opportunity to prove his ability in competitive sport regardless of previous affiliations. Suddenly last week, two days after the Big Ten decided to lift...
...great-grandson of Jay Cooke. It also has a partner named Fish. As old Mr. Barney approached 50 another firm was founded in Philadelphia by the late Edward Brinton Smith, a railroad & utility banker. In Philadelphia, where such things count, Edward B. Smith & Co. was socially the equal of Chas. D. Barney & Co., and financially it was not scorned even by Drexel & Co. (branch of J. P. Morgan). During the War, however, Edward B. Smith & Co. lost ground, and the founder's son Albert and a group of young partners headed by John W. Cutler had to start almost...
...latest increases the dining-hall employees were paid below the most liberal rates outside, and even the increases leave the waitresses poorly paid if they are compared with workers in the best restaurants. Likewise, Harvard cannot be content as it seems to be well-content, that its working conditions equal those outside...
...University, including the maintenance department, grounds keepers, and library-workers, have earnings a little higher than similar labor outside. The satisfaction with which the University regards this situation points to the most serious failing in its labor policy. Harvard feels that so long as its wages are equal to the most liberal wages outside, or a little better, that it is doing its part. Thus the University has no mind of its own on a good labor problem, and accepts the standards set outside regardless of their rightness or wrongness...
...synthetic fibres, employs 14,000 workers in 16 factories scattered over Italy. Long a rayon producer, Snia Viscosa also markets Snia-fiocco, fibre made from wood pulp (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Snia Viscosa's newest concoction is fibre made from milk, which it calls lanital and claims is equal in appearance and quality to wool. Princess Caetani calls herself lanital's "social representative" in the U. S. A familiar milk product is casein, of which in the U. S, alone 46,140,000 pounds were produced last year, mostly for the paper industry. Some 20 years...