Word: foldes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real property. Ultimately such equities will rise in proportion as money is devalued. Columbia, for instance, has shown beyond cavil the wisdom of owning land. Not only have they milked their mid-town properties in Manhattan of fat yearly rents, but rising values have increased their original investment many fold. The trustees of Harvard should take a long thought about such forms of protection when they start investing their newly acquired millions...
...incapable of taking advantage of the expensive opportunities of the Tutorial System, do not let them slop through four wasted years. Give them an education they deserve and need; an extra course per year, hour examinations, quizzes, and attendance. This will quickly stimulate the gifted to return into the fold, and will at least give a real, rounded education for the rest. Under this plan, the progress of the past few years, more and more graduates with honors, fewer and fewer failures, would continue...
Since the case against the holding company was so strong, wrote Messrs. Schwab & Grace, Bethlehem was about to transform itself into an operating company, absorb four subsidiaries, "as the initial steps in a consolidation program." Still outside the fold are some 60 other Bethlehem subsidiaries including the most important ones...
What the Railway Express Agency is to railroads, two rival companies have long been to airlines. Company No. 1 is Railway Express itself, with Pan American, United, twelve other airlines in its fold. Company No. 2 is General Air Express, a pool created by TWA, American, five other airlines, with pickups and deliveries handled by Postal Telegraph...
...Alexei Stakhanov, a skilled pneumatic drill operator in the Donbas Coal Trust sector, was discovered by the Soviet Press this year to be performing prodigies, soon was raised by Bolshevik puffs to the status of a "Hero of Labor." Russians read that Stakhanov increased his output of coal five-fold by "Stakhanovism." What he did was 'to organize a gang of three miners with such teamwork that Stakhanov, the skilled pneumatic driller, was able to spend all his time drilling out coal, while the others did the propping and panting. By this means the three got out enough coal...