Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been previously explained, the whole plan of not reporting attendance in advanced courses which are taken primarily by Juniors and Seniors is being tried as an experiment. The Faculty Council has requested that a careful study of the working of the plan should be made and a report presented at the end of the year in order to determine future policy. An especially appeal is therefore made to under-graduates not to abuse the new system...
...natural object for New Deal reform, the basing point was thoroughly damned by the Federal Trade Commission in a special study in 1934. A special NRA report urged modifications so drastic that they would mean virtual abolition of the system. Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler is earnestly trying to end the basing point once & for all with a bill introduced last month...
...stockholders of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. went last week an exhaustive annual report accompanied by an elaborate 40-page booklet prepared in connection with the company's soth anniversary celebration. Westinghouse, Past, Present and Future paid long and deserved homage to Founder George Westinghouse, the prolific Yankee genius who invented the railroad air brake before he was 23, later pioneered in electrical equipment.* Conspicuously missing from the commemorative booklet was the fact that George Westinghouse was ousted from his own company seven years before he died in 1914 at the age of 67. His company's failure during...
...centre of this amazingly decentralized Westinghouse organization employing 35,000 workers sits Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson, a 56-year-old onetime school teacher who made his mark operating Pittsburgh's street car system. He stepped into Westinghouse in 1929. In the report last week President Frank Anderson Merrick joined Chairman Robertson in predicting: "Unforeseen events may change estimates for better or for worse; but, to the best of our judgment, 1936 should be a fairly prosperous year. We are making plans accordingly...
Westinghouse sales in 1935 footed up to $122,000,000, an increase over the previous year of 33%. Last week in a preliminary report General Electric showed 1935 sales of $208,000,000, an increase of 27%. From the 1929 peak to Depression's low Westinghouse sales declined 69%, GE sales 67%. And while Westinghouse was unable to make any money for three years, GE managed to show a $13,000,000 profit even in 1933. GE's profit for last year was $27,000,000, inspiring a boost in quarterly dividend payments...