Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prime factors in the production of wealth are natural resources--land the most common--and human labor. To these the common-sense of man has added a third factor, which is essential to our present scale of production, capital--that portion of wealth which is laid aside to assist in future production. Current wealth production must be apportioned, on some basis, to the three factors in the form of rent to land, wages to labor and interest to capital. And from rent, wages and interest, one or all, must come the current living expenses of individuals, current expenses...
...Ferriss transfers this obvious, romantic vision into a series of pleasing, misty drawings made appealing by the use of breath-taking perspectives and powerful light effects. Practical critics observe that the scheme is ephemeral and utilizes such tricks as leaving out windows which, if represented, would convey the proper scale and give a realistic effect to Architect Ferriss's momentous masses, but would make these masses seem much less momentous and startlingly visionary. The drawings are accompanied by a lyrical text which breaks out into blank verse at times and ends with an epilog-The City Could Be Made...
...Spanish Universities, and the English Universities except for Oxford, Cambridge, and London are run on a great deal smaller scale than Harvard", said Mr. Peers. "The result is, of course, that our professors are bothered with comparatively little organization or red tape, as compared with yours. In the University of Liverpool, for instance, there are only 1800 students. The main reason for this is that there are not anywhere near as many people in Spain or in England who are desirous of a college education as there are in America. Then too, in Spain the A. B. degree means almost...
Penney Dairy. Pig-raising was the first, Penney Stores the most profitable, of the business ventures of James Cash Penney. Famed as a livestock breeder, Mr. Penney includes as diversion large scale, scientific farming. Biggest of his farming projects is Foremost Dairy Products, Inc., organized last March, operating in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia. Last week the Penney herds expanded westward when Foremost merged with Southwest Dairy Products Co., which serves 120,000 square miles in the states of Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas. Annual sales volume of the new company will exceed...
...shall at any rate watch with a very real interest the forthcoming developments, inasmuch as they will be the first manifestations of a movement, which may affect many American universities. They are certain to be quite at odds with anything we have hitherto tried on any scale; as such they merit careful consideration. In the last analysis, however, we are secretly glad that the hostages of fortune will be drawn from other ranks than ours. --Yale News