Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...product of his studies, a plan for helping grain farmers to market their product, was surprised out of him by newspapers. The Journal of Commerce (Chicago) published an account of Mr. Baruch's plan; so Mr. Baruch decided to give a full and correct account of it himself. The proposal is simple...
...true of Harvard is, in the main, true of nearly all the colleges. The old prejudice against college men in business is vanishing. Every year there are more demands for men either with the special knowledge in a given field or with the mental training which is the product of the best college education. Many institutions turn more and more to "practical" education, heeding the dislike of business men for the "unessentials." Against this tendency some of the larger universities have steadily striven, holding that it is for the graduate schools to concentrate on "vocational" training, and that for colleges...
...done so for about three years. During this time the average price of silver has been 70 cents an ounce (just now it is about 65 cents an ounce). So American silver miners have been getting a bonus of about 30 cents an ounce for their product- and the Government has been paying that much more for silver than was necessary. Of the silver purchased at $1.00 an ounce, about 10,000,000 ounces were used for subsidiary coins (half dollars, quarters, dimes). In view of this fact, the Treasury Department has discontinued its purchases of $1.00 silver, declaring that...
...much at the law as at the particular instance of its operation: " It has never been supposed since the adoption of the Constitution that the business of the butcher, or the baker, the tailor, the wood chopper, the mining operator, or the miner [the Kansas law applies to the production and transportation of food, fuel and clothing], was clothed with such public interest that the price of his product or his wages could be fixed by state regulation...
...Raymond Poincare, wife of the Premier of France: " In retaliation for the reputed French annexation policy in the Rhineland, a Cologne newspaper printed an involved analysis of my family tree concluding that I am ' a pure product of old German stock and really belong to Germany.' The long intermingling of nationalities in Alsace-Lorraine is the basis of this claim...