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...keen competition for markets among businesses today calls for high quality products and services and for the greatest possible efficiency in operations. Materials must be used to best advantage and costs of manufacture and distribution kept at a minimum if any company is to survive and make a profit. New uses for materials must be discovered, new products developed, and old products must be revamped and refurbished to meet and to whet the public taste for novelty and perfection. Back of this feverish struggle to excel, to beat the other fellow, to win customers, is the intensive search...
...annual matches with the Coast Guard Academy and Virginia are the tops of the season for Lamar's men. The greeting of the hosts is warm, the competition keen and clean. These two schools have not yet gone in for that practice of getting in ringers, a practice that Lamar feels is rulning Intercollegiate boxing. "Unlike other schools," he says, "Virginia has none of the former amateur boxers which are being grabbed up by most of the other schools. If this were the case everywhere, boxing would rest far more easily in the colleges. The main trouble is this loading...
...could more easily be defended. "The community has no more valuable asset than an experienced judge. It takes a new judge a long time to become completely master of the material of his court. Contrary to general opinion, the work of the court tends to keep a man keen-witted and earnest...
...Nevertheless, the practice of dichotomy-by which one physician refers a patient to another for a price-is almost as widespread in the U. S. as it is in France, where it has been regulated. So flagrant has the practice become in New York City, where medical competition is keen and many a physician has to scratch gravel to survive, that last week the president of the Association of Private Hospitals Inc. called in the press to expostulate...
...Manhattan, bedded in Presbyterian Hospital reading a detective-story magazine, Drugstore Messenger Jacob Bastocky, 22, was startled to see the picture of an escaped criminal named Joseph Martin whose face he at once spotted two beds away. Keen-eyed Bastocky calmly rang for an orderly who glanced at the magazine photograph and Patient Martin, summoned police...