Word: industrialistic
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...last week went to Board Chairman William Edward Boeing of potent United Aircraft & Transport Corp. First awarded in 1929 to Orville Wright, the Guggenheim Medal has gone each year to outstanding scientists in advanced aeronautical engineering. No aeronautical engineer is this year's winner, but a hard-headed industrialist who turned to flying as a hobby, began making airplanes as a whim and ended up by giving the world a new standard of aircraft performance. To him went the award for "successful pioneering and achievement in aircraft manufacture and air transportation." Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman, "Bill" Boeing...
...within stated limits all medical and surgical service to employes, except for injuries covered by workmen's compensation laws. More than 500,000 workers in 37 States are thus insured against the costs of sickness. Albert Wellington Bridge's friends think he might have become a great industrialist. Orphaned son of a Vermont farmer, he decided early that there was no proper room for his talents in farming or in the sawmill where, when he finished high school, he worked 16 hr. a day for $8 a month. Selling the farm he had inherited from his father...
...dealers would stand in the way of such a progressive and forward looking principle today. But the bill goes far beyond any such objective. It prohibits an employer, ranging all the way from the small business man or merchant with two or three employees or clerks up to the industrialist with his large army of workers, from opening his mouth to utter a word that could possibly be construed as "influence" upon the "policies" or "operations" of any labor organization...
Appropriately launched upon his career as the son of an influential Austrian industrialist, Joseph Alois Schumpeter was born in 1883, in an Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political...
Appropriately launched upon his career as the son of an influential Austrian industrialist, Joseph Alois Schumpeter was born in 1883, in an Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political...