Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There remain only something over 110 men still to secure places, a record which has not been attained since 1930. The main positions open are in finance, sales, and accounting offices, particularly in industrial and general (C.P.A.) accounting because of code emphasis on prices. A large number have found employment in retail department stores and in the sales departments of large firms...
...obtain and rarely given over any long period of time. Usually a compromise has to be made and so the pure scholar devotes a certain amount of time to teaching in order to make both ends meet. The result is, more often than not, disastrous. A man whose main interest is scholarship rarely combines within himself the necessary qualities of a good teacher. We must remember that teaching is a profession of its own. To be a good teacher requires not only enough knowledge about one's subject to be able to convey it to other individuals, but a complete...
...platform, gave his Protestant friend, the Rev. Herbert Bigelow, an impulsive hug, strode up to the microphones. Eighteen thousand people jammed the hall. In the basement were some 7,000 more who had paid to hear Priest Coughlin through loudspeakers, see him for a few minutes after the main show. In the streets some 5,000 lackpenny Clevelanders cocked their ears to loudspeakers. A handful of Socialists carrying placards urging people to join the Socialist Party rather than the National Union had their banners snatched out of their hands by mounted policemen. But vendors of plaster busts and photographs...
...Beans. The soy bean, seed of an Asiatic herb, is the main crop of Manchuria, a staple food for Chinese and Japanese. In the U. S. some 3,000,000 acres were planted to soy beans last year. Most of the U. S. crop goes into forage. But some is made into sauce for chop suey, some into cooking oil, some into bread for diabetics. Henry Ford's chemist, R. H. McCarroll, foreseeing industrial uses of soy beans, got Mr. Ford to plant 10,000 acres to soy beans last year, 30,000 this year. From soy bean...
...swamps of the South. So-called slash pine can be harvested when five years old and economically manufactured into coarse paper (wrapping paper, newspaper). Owners of large acreage may harvest a fifth of their crop yearly, replant the cut-over area, and have a continuing cycle of growths. Main trouble of Dr. Herty's project is that papermaking mills cost millions, which are now hard to raise...