Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford wanted to merge the two roads, to buy out that troublesome 1% of his partners. They persisted, he assigned lower values to their shares. The Interstate Commerce Commission made no ruling on the values of the shares, but said last week that Mr. Ford's method was, "not consistent with fair dealing." If more than a million freight cars are loaded per week, then the U. S. is prosperous-so say the financial prophets. A report just issued shows that 1,102,590 cars were loaded during the week ending July...
...skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except an orgy of chopping...
Obviously one method is by an appeal to fear. The wary consumer may be convinced that some dread disease will steal upon him if he does not use a certain dentifrice. Most conspicuous in this field of advertising is the Forhan's slogan: "Pyorrhea seizes four out of five...
...that sheet copper roofings connected by huge copper bands directly with wet earth would have frustrated even this "act of God?" The system of lightning rod protectors at Lake Denmark is obviously inefficient. The Government controls immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method to control electrical attacks on the concentrated sudden death at Dover? Were the officials negligent in permitting habitation near the arsenal? Will new storage plants be situated at Dover? Will serious attempt be made to safeguard them against lightning? Will the 21 other arsenals along the U. S. seacoasts...
...welcome them and to enunciate a Tory view of historical writing that caused a flurry of international comment, mostly favorable. Said Mr. Baldwin: "I am quite sure that if you try to bring up youth on entirely unbiased history he will never read it. I prefer my own method of getting a vivid picture first and correcting it afterwards; because, generally speaking, you do not want to be fair until you are grown up. ... I think that to try to make young people see every side and sit on the fence would be to train up a generation...