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Both companies are venerable. In 1852 Harry and Clement Studebaker began making covered wagons in South Bend. Seven years later Thomas White perfected a sewing machine. The Studebaker covered wagons were joined by electric cars about 1900, chiefly because of the foresight of Frederick Samuel Fish who had entered the firm in 1891. Son-in-law of one of the five Studebaker brothers who joined in the business, Mr. Fish, 80, is now chairman of the company. White's entrance into transportation came at about the same time. First roller skates were added to sewing machines, then bicycles. The company...
...Virile Son Harriman enjoys sport as well as work, is an expert polo player with a 4-goal handicap. In business his luck has been to tackle situations at bad moments. He has always had a sentimental attachment for Union Pacific, from which by hard work, spectacular plunging and foresight his father hammered fame & fortune. He was a U. P. director while at Yale, sometimes appearing at meetings with a classbook under his arm. He spent vacations working on the road. His family's direct U. P. holdings are estimated at only 1.63% of the common stock...
Hyde & Seedlings. In his acceptance speech Governor Roosevelt had specified reforestation as an "immediate means" of giving 1,000,000 men employment. Said he: "There are tens of millions of acres east of the Mississippi River alone in abandoned farms and cut-over land. . . . Economic foresight and immediate employment march hand in hand in the call for reforestation of these vast areas. . . . I'm doing it today in the State of New York and the Democratic party can do it successfully in the nation...
...nurseries in America do not possess 1,000,000,000 seedlings. They probably do not possess 200,000,000. But suppose there were 300,000,000 seedling trees available, 1,000,000 men could plant them in about three hours! Thus 'immediate employment and economic foresight' marching hand in hand a la Roosevelt would speedily meet an untimely...
First, the administration in one notable particular has been guilty of lack of foresight. The Houses were begun in the high tide of prosperity, and rents were fixed on a basis of a "bull market". The administration at Yale, dilatory and ineffective though it has been in establishing a House Plan which will not go into operation until 1933, nevertheless had the foresight to set aside a fixed fraction of the Harkness gift and use this fraction as an endowment of the Houses. No such provision was made at Harvard...