Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like to see a situation where we'd never sell another gun, another battleship or another projectile. I'd like to see the world stop destroying values and start creating values, and that would spell better business profits...
...position to be War Baby No. 1, as in the last war, but I can tell you that our directors and our associates don't want that kind of business. I'd like to see the war stop today. Bethlehem would be better...
...Standard machine to test hearing is the audiometer, a phonograph-like device with earphones instead of an amplifier. When records are played, with varying sound intensities, subjects write down what they hear. With an adequate number of earphones, an audiometer can test the hearing ranges of a classroomful of children in 25 minutes...
Because no publisher would take a chance on his revolutionary books, Professor Rugg sold or pawned everything he owned, raised $4,000, printed and distributed them himself. They sold like soft drinks in a desert. Today his books are published by Ginn & Co., have sold more than 2,000,000 copies...
...years the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (founder: Benjamin Franklin) has gone solidly about its business of promoting science and industry. To many a famed scientist, engineer, inventor have gone its awards for work that advanced their professions. Like other kudos-conferring bodies, the Institute has never tried to bestow kudos-where-kudos-is-due among ordinary businessmen. This week the Institute stepped out, announced that from now on it would recognize the science of industrial management...