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...More Hooey?" The school grew out of Republic Steel President Charles M. White's belief that his workers' misconceptions about such matters as profits were a prime source of labor-management conflict. Last year he got the University of Chicago's Industrial Relations Center to make some questionnaire tests which verified his suspicions: of 650 foremen tested, 45 believed that $100 million is a billion, 26% believed that everyone gets the same Social Security pension when he reaches 65, 39% thought that "capital is not productive," 23½% believed that companies try to "hide profits" by boosting...
...York retail sales had soared 25% above last year-and that included the thousands of merchants who had stayed on the sidelines. Said Secretary-Treasurer George A. Renard of the National Association of Purchasing Agents: "This talk about injury to a competitor is the biggest hoax and hooey . . . Of course, competitors should be injured; when they lose business it jars them into doing something about it, and that is what made our production and distribution methods the envy of the world...
...window to get air, had slipped or fainted, and had fallen. In Scarsdale, his widow, Mrs. Helen Boyd Duggan, a onetime advertising executive, angrily told newsmen: "I deny that my husband had anything to do with Whittaker Chambers or . . . with spying. It's the biggest lot of hooey I ever heard. It just isn't so-any part...
Harry or Dewey, the same old hooey, again and again and more...
...Teachers' colleges stress psychology, teaching methods-all kinds of high-powered hooey . . . but give little attention to the subject matter which they may later have to teach...