Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious--one is an attempt to remedy the other. It is true that the student's tuition fee seems to have increased more rapidly than the wage of his instructor. A part of the former is necessarily absorbed by the heightened cost of maintenance of a modern educational plant. But the irresistible argument for the higher fee is the necessity of enabling the teaching force to meet the higher cost of living. It is, of course, impossible to offer the teacher, whether in the academic or professional school, a salary which will attract men and women in competition with...
...representative in the aircraft manu facturing field one such strong, well-financed, well-managed concern than a score of the so- "called "manufacturers" which, mushroom-like, fill barns and hangars in other cities, build tiny "factories" on overenthusiastic local capital. 2) That the "abandoned" Glenn L. Martin plant was at the time it was taken over one of the two or three largest and best-equipped aircraft factories in the world, and that subsequent additions and improvements made by this company at a cost of over $300,000 have considerably improved its position in this respect. 3) That the "onetime...
...only in step with the newest transportation, aviation, but well up at the head of the march. Items: The Aviation Corp. last week bought a $500,000 factory site to build Dornier all-metal transports; Glenn L. Martin Co. was to move into its new plant this week; Curtiss-Caproni Corp.'s new factory was almost completed; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. had just completed its first commercial biplane; Doyle Aero Corp. was producing commercial biplanes; a 400-acre municipal airport was under construction; Curtiss Flying Service was building a 360-acre airport...
Growth from a department under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to the immense plant of the George F. Baker Foundation indicates in concrete terms the progress which the School has made in putting business training on a parity with that of any other profession. The vision of the early founders clearly saw the importance to society of business leaders bred not alone in the school of experience, but in an institution where professional traditions leave their stamp. It is this, perhaps, this new emphasis on the professional standing and obligation of the business man, that stands...
Among the 250,000, the words "Kansas" and "Capper" ever recurred. Besides the customary news features were six special sections praising the State and its Publisher- Senator. Hymned were Kansas business, buildings, sports, nonagenarians, airlife, roads, history, brass bands, debutantes, geology, wild animals. Described were the Capper publishing plant, genealogy, policies, hopes...