Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven, Conn., November 23--The Jayvees opened Harvard's weekend at New Haven by whitewashing Yale's scrubs 8-0 in an unexciting game in the Elis' stronghold yesterday afternoon as Frank Owen and Walter Brookings turned in the Crimson's outstanding performances...
This review of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize Essay, "A Study in Highway Economics," by Wilfred Owen '34, is written by Edward S. Mason, associate professor of Economics. The essay is published today...
...Owen treats substantially three problem of highway costs and cost allocation, and the question of motor vehicle taxation. In connection with the first group he illuminates the matter by viewing a highway as a production plant turning out a commodity--vehicle miles types of problems: those connected with the production of highway services, the and presenting much the same problems of size, location, and production process, i.e., type of road construction, as economists are accustomed to deal with in their theory of production. So neatly is this done is fact that the question arises whether, perhaps, the aualogy...
...discussion of the difficult questions of highway cost and cost allocation is equally acute. The problem is essentially one of read classification on the basis of benefits dispensed and to whom. Mr. Owen properly objects to the enstemary classification of roads into vehicle use highways and local use highways with their various sub-groups on the ground that it is too simple to reflect accurately the reality of the situation. He is not, however, prepared to advance an alternative classification of his own, contenting himself rather with the observation that such a classification will only be practicable after extensive traffic...
...Owen's style, while not as yet distinguished, is adequate for the purpose. The argument moves along clearly and succinctly and the book may well be taken as a model treatment of the sort of question it attempts to handle