Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louisiana the State High School Inspector experimented. To the pupils of three average 8-4 communities and of three 7-4 communities he submitted eight standard educational tests. The 7-4 pupils scored 8.1 points higher on average, though an 8-4 school was individual high scorer. Percentages of failure in college were studied; 7-4's and 8-4's appeared identical...
...born in Victoria, Tex., in 1864 and claimed to be of Cuban parentage, on account of which he used the Spanish form of his name. He was first a cowboy, then an inspector of customs, cattle trader, cotton raiser. From the cotton and wool business he branched into a scheme for colonizing Mexico with southern Negroes. The colony failed, but he went on; he entered the brokerage business, and went to New York. There he became head of a $10,000,000 water company which served various towns now incorporated in New York City and known as the Bronx. After...
Melville Conley Whipple, Sanitary Inspector...
...share in the reform the I. R. T. has undertaken to abolish the insignificant loss of less than $3,000 which it sustains every month by installing slug detectors on its slot turnstiles. These hold each coin under a magnifying glass until the next is inserted; and thus one inspector can guard all the stiles at one station...
...first Garden City, of Hampstead Garden Suburb, and is one of the leading exponents of the garden city principle. During the war he was Chief Town Planner to the Ministry of Munitions, which was responsible for the war housing developments. Since the war, he has been Chief Town Plan Inspector to the Ministry of Health, in charge of the great British housing program. He is also past president of the Town Planning Institute of Great Britain...