Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal's erstwhile Coordinator of Transportation. Skeptical about private ownership as he is, nevertheless he told the Boston Chamber of Commerce last fortnight: "It is hard to be cold about the transportation situation today, because it is full of vitality and fascination and in a period of rapid growth and change which excites the keenest interest." For a time, the Commissioner continued, the railroads had shown serious symptoms of "incipient senility." But "the advantage which an industry has over an individual is that it can be born again. That'is what I think is happening to the railroads...
Finally, consideration should be given to the desirability of distributing the function of tutoring over a larger number of the permanent members of the Faculty. In this way it would be possible to reduce the rapid turnover that would otherwise be necessary, increase the opportunity for promotion for a larger number of young tutors of ability, strengthen the tutorial staff, and improve the quality of tutorial instruction...
...there a Department of Justice, although duties wished on the Attorney General had been tremendous. Jealousies arising from Congressional dislike of reorganization delayed for a half century the creation of a unified department to handle U. S. legal affairs. Turnover in the office of Attorney General has been rapid. There have been more Attorneys General (54) than Secretaries in each of the State, Treasury and Post Office Departments. Only in the War Department have changes been more numerous (56). Some Attorneys General were distinguished, many were not. Some became Supreme Court justices, many quit to return to more lucrative...
Sherrill, "might also allow the de-velopment of a form of dangerous racketeering in the promotion of consumer co-operatives at the hands of unscrupulous and skillful demagogs." Another "public interest" discussed by the retailers was the rapid rise in installment selling. While total dry goods sales last year were up about 12%, time sales were up a whacking 33%. Seconding the storm warning raised by other speakers, Accountant...
Scull (Scull Co.) suggested: "Because we are going through the most rapid expansion in credit business that retailing has ever experienced, are we not headed for serious trouble at the next downward curve of the vicious cycle and would it not be well to remember as the credit sales mount to an ever higher peak that beyond the highest peak there is always a valley?" Not daunted by this notion was Joseph L. Fowler, of Boston's Jordan Marsh, who urged the end of the dunning letters, proposed for delinquent accounts notices that were "mild in tone, neat...