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...little floundering, in his own classroom, but he is not a professional. If he marries and has to go on teaching in order to make a living, he may never become more than a "good" teacher. His grasp of educational issues will be at best a matter of pick-up knowledge. Teaching as a career, even if it does not lead to school administration, demands more than casual acquaintance with the major problems of education
...confusion, Pan American and 20 of the 23 U. S. domestic airlines last week got together in Manhattan, decided to throw in their lot with Railway Express Agency. Announcing the agreement, effective Feb. 1, Railway Express promised door to door pick-up and delivery of air and air-rail express in 32 foreign countries and in 215 cities of the U. S. and Canada. Rates will stay the same. All of the Agency's 23,000 railway express offices will become air express stations as well...
...survey of over 100 colleges throughout the country has shown a strong increase in the number of students using the home laundry system and the Express company has been quick to develop the new business on a large scale. Students seem to like the pick-up and delivery service on both ends of the journey which this method of sending service offers. The popularity of the idea may also be partially based on the chance to send the bundle collect and receive it paid...
...publishing business for a while, becoming editor of Photoplay, and recently "Western editor" of Liberty. The unhappy, pouched eyes of Ray Long grew unhappier. Panic-stricken, the man who once could command $100,000 a year and almost any editor's chair found himself reduced, at 57, to pick-up jobs from old friends and beneficiaries...
...Benefiting from the slight pick-up in building, Johns-Manville Corp. operated in the black for the first March quarter since 1931. Profits were $246,000 as against a loss of $76,000 in the same three months of 1934 and a loss of $953,000 in the March quarter...