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...Whitney's existing plant. Workmen are being hired at the rate of 50 a day. Soon there will be two men at every job-one working, one watching - throughout its 6,000-job plant. This also is a necessary extravagance. For one man at each job is a learner. When the new plant is opened, a trained staff will be ready to march in and begin production at full speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week, after being "grounded" nearly seven years, Bert Acosta was back in the air. The Department of Commerce, convinced of his reformation, finally lifted its ban, granted him a "learner's permit." After five hours solo, the best living pilot was scheduled this week to take his flight test for a transport license. Said Alford J. ("Al") Williams, famed onetime Navy stunt pilot: "Aviation needs Acosta badly. Seeing him take a ship off the ground is the best eye tonic I've had in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pilot's Pilot | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...Freshman, will compete in the forth-coming tournament. The Freshman team was chosen through a round-robin tourney staged by the Harvard Chess Club, and has played together already in one informal match with Lowell House which resulted in a draw; R. M. Bowle '35 and Nathan Learner '35 won their games, and M. V. Levintritt '35 and P. B. Kenyon '35 were beaten after long seesion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE CHESS TOURNEY BEGINS | 2/11/1932 | See Source »

...Wiggin Committee of the Rank for International Settlements on August 19 told the world that tariffs should be lowered, it was simply repeating advice which had been given many lines during recent years. On April 21, 1931, a similar recommendation was made by General W. W. Atterbury, the learner Republican National Committee man from the protections stronghold of Pennsylvania. But the advice has been little heeded, in part because the man in the street does not clearly understand how and why rising tariffs have been undermining his prosperity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "No Solid Prosperity Until Many Tariffs Have Been Substantially Reduced," Slichter Warns | 2/3/1932 | See Source »

...Kadish, Brockton High School; A. M. Kelley, The Phillips Exeter Academy; K. R. Kimball, Thayer Academy; H. M. Kowal, Boston Latin School; Ten Eyck Lansing, Choste School, Wallingford, Conn.; J. P. Lardner, Phillips Academy, Andover; P. F. Lawler, Boston Latin School; J. P. Learned. The Phillips Exeter Academy; Nathan Learner, Boston Latin School; Sears Lehmann, Jr., St. Louis Country Day School, St. Louis, Mo.; M. V. Loventritt, Riverdale Country School, Riverdale, N.Y.; W. H. Lewis, Jr., Morristown High School, Morristown, N. J.; R. B. Lichtenstein, Boston Latin School; R. J. Long, Boston Latin School; W. E. Lunt, Jr., Haverford School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS IN BOARD EXAMINATIONS GO TO 132 FRESHMEN | 12/17/1931 | See Source »

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