Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News that the Niagara-Hudson Power Corp. "Morgan Combine," had bought Frontier Power Corp., "Mellon Company" (see p. 41), sent billows rolling across the political sea. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (Democrat) declared that the fact that 80% of New York State is now served by one hydro-electric corporation made it necessary for him once again to urge the Legislature (Republican) to create a body of public trustees to develop St. Lawrence waterpower for the people. He called attention to the fact that although the power company may own the bank of the river, the state owns...
...laid? If business itself answers "Marketing," or "Factory Production," or, if more inclusively, it answers "Management," and there should be no academic equipment in these fields, what should be done? What shifts and devices, what combinations of planning and improvisation what watchful anxiety and what adventure, lay on this frontier of the unknown! If there were no teachers anywhere to be found, then let young pioneers train themselves as teachers. If there was no teaching material in print, then it must be quarried out of the mine of current business practice and a Bureau of Business Research must be created...
...both governments grew thoroughly irritated, the Chinese and Soviet official press services started up a game they have not played for a fortnight ? the dangerous sport of announcing that while "our troops" were trying to maintain an inoffensive guard along the China-Russian frontier, "their troops" were raiding across the border, thus obliging "our troops" to engage the rascals and drive them back where they belonged...
With significant unison the Soviet and Chinese governments both stopped last week their game of hurling counter charges that Chinese and Russian troops were raiding each other's positions along the Siberian-Manchurian frontier (TIME, July...
...British Consulate at Harbin, central Manchuria, received orders to prepare for evacuation of British citizens in the event that a Soviet offensive should actually be launched from the frontier 300 miles distant...