Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ford's schools in Greenfield, with 244 pupils all told, go from kindergarten to the college level. At the top is the Edison Institute of Technology. Although he once said "history is bunk," the Greenfield schools teach history. But they stress such subjects as typewriting, manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian...
...perforated tape rather than a photocell. Not only can either of these devices be used to receive dispatches from long distances quickly convertible into type; their inventors claim that, used to set up local copy within an office, the machines are far more efficient than manual operation of linotypes. Stories are accumulated either on the Semagraph code copy or on the Teletypesetter tape. These stories are then fed to the linotypes which turn out type faster and more steadily than a man can produce it. In the offices of the Newburgh, N. Y. Newburgh News, Teletype-setters have been...
...lovingly. The undergraduate, in desperation, looked around for help. At that moment up stepped no less a personage than William Yandell Elliot, professor of Government, and adviser to President Roosevelt. Scanning the situation with a keen, academic perspicacity, Professor Elliot concluded that only one measure would do the trick--manual labor...
...Gasque Bills which the Administration is determined not to swallow* are two. The first would liberalize the interpretation of disability to include every soldier "unable to do manual labor," would up non-service-connected pensions from $30 to the $40 they were before the Economy Act of 1933. Cost estimate: $5,000,000 the first year. The "big" Gasque Bill carries out the announced aims of American Legion Commander Daniel J. Doherty: pensions for all veterans' widows, regardless of whether their husbands ever fought anything but mosquitoes. Estimated annual cost...
Izaak Walton's definitive work on 17th-Century fishing, The Compleat Angler, is now a literary curiosity rather than a manual. A treatise published this week borrowed from its title but not its style. The Compleat Goggler* introduced a new sport, told the best ways of indulging...