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...Economic Progress, therefore took as its theme the factors that entered into an executive's choice of certain prices for his company's products. Lion's share of the credit for the first four volumes went to the Institution's president, bald, vigorous Harold G. Moulton. Actually the concept was as much the creation of its Institute of Economics director, tall, distinguished-looking Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse (rhymes with "course") and the latest book is published over his name and that of Horace B. Drury. Brother of Novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart (Oil for the Lamps...
Thus last week spoke Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, before the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. No mere plaint against labor was Dr. Moulton's argument. It was in fact but the converse of a familiar thesis, that higher wages and shorter hours are necessary to compensate for technological progress. The cause of 1937's slump, said Dr. Moulton, was that there had been not enough increase in productive efficiency to compensate for the raising of wages and the simultaneous lowering of working hours...
Said Forest Ray Moulton, Chicago astronomer and executive secretary of the Association: "Science is the first line defense of freedom of the mind. Of all things it, on the whole, is most nearly objective and least involved in the prejudices and emotions of men. Its conclusions are capable of being most easily tested. When free, it knows no nationality, race or creed. Its spirit is a model for the world...
...officially approved the plan for some of the world's most learned men to form an international body of thinkers and knowers that might light up a world darkened by malice, ignorance and fear. Dreamily unpractical though such a notion was in the light of past experience, Secretary Moulton began to draw up U. S. contributions to a world platform on which a World Association of Science, if formed, could stand...
When ingenious Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews was finally thrown out of the Hupp management (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935), he left the company's affairs at a lower ebb than they had ever been since young Robert Hupp sat up all one cold night to assemble his first show model in 1908. From $52,500,000 in 1929, Hupp sales had dropped to $6,118,000 in 1933 and recovered only to $6,868,000 in 1935. Depressed by Hupp's million-dollar losses and by Archie Andrews' merchandising schemes, parts supply companies were refusing to extend credit...