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There is always a great economic need for fresh capital, and just now the work of supplying enterprise with needed money, by reason of post-war conditions, takes on new importance. We are the largest house of our kind in America, handling only the cleanest, high-grade financial investments. The sales capacity of the house runs into millions annually. It has twenty-two branch offices and plans to expand to a total of seventy-five branches. We have forty thousand clients. Our aim is to increase this to one hundred thousand within a year. The last enterprise handled...
There is always a great economic need for fresh capital, and just now the work of supplying enterprise with needed money, by reason of post-war conditions, take on new importance. We are the largest house of our kind in America, handling only the cleanest, high-grade financial investment. The sale capacity of the house runs into million annually. It has twenty-two branch offices and plans to expand to a total of seventy-five branches. We have forty thousand clients. Our aim is to increate this to one hundred thousand within a year. The last enterprise handled...
Wood-chopping during Christmas vacation attracted the largest number of students, 148, while there were 134 clerks, 124 monitors, 52 typists, 52 choremen, 47 waiters, 42 tutors, 24 salesmen, 20 gardeners, 14 workers for the Fuel Administration, 14 secretaries, 14 stenographers, 12 guides, 10 agents, 10 musicians, 9 chaffers, 9 who rented their rooms for services, 8 ushers, 7 readers, 6 translators, 5 tutor companions, 5 errandmen, 4 attendants, 4 companions, 4 draftsmen, 4 investigators, 4 librarians, 4 proofreaders, 3 in charge of boys' clubs, 3 note-takers, 3 proctors, 3 ticket-takers, 2 caretakers, 2 coaches, 2 dancing teachers...
...being provided for as conditions warrant. The fee for the special summer course, including flights, is $100. The institution is housed in a four story fire-proof structure of steel and concrete. The building is fitted with light, airy classrooms, recreation quarters, library, reading and smoking rooms, and the largest school workshop in the country...
This type of summer work has been dictated for the most part by the impulse to see and feel the great facts of life in their largest, roughest, and most elemental form, and to broaden in view-point accordingly, which was aroused but not satisfied for them in time of war. The jobs they have selected are those which involve heavy manual work, among men who work honestly from day to day with their hands, and see things from the laboring man's point of view...