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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small colleges and secondary schools in the modern refinements of many sports is no innovation as far as colleges in general are concerned. Many other colleges have been giving such courses for a number of years, while Harvard has lagged behind, offering such instruction only on a limited scale. Now she is approaching the place she occupies in other branches of education...
...have sold my automobile," he admitted not long ago. "Also I avoid many invitations. Mme. Poincaré and myself can no longer entertain, in return, on the scale expected of my office...
Price is a difficult thing for a motor manufacturer to fix. Labor costs so-much, material so-much. Not in all cases is it possible to economize by making one's own parts. It often is cheaper to buy from a large-scale parts factory. In a list of 93 models, for example, 13 used Lycoming motors, 14 Continentals. Ford, famed for controlling all manufacturing steps from raw material to finished cars, last week had contracted to buy batteries, tires, bodies, shock absorbers from outside companies.* All manufacturers seem to give good value in 1929 cars. The table...
...story, then, is an imaginative one, and those who have thought of going on a long-term masquerade on a big scale will do well to study it. But to this reviewer, at any rate, it was just another proof of the dictum that direction of the imagination into desirable channels is the secret of a happy and virtuous life...
...prepare paper from corn stalks. But such corn paper has always been more expensive than wood pulp paper. Wallboard may also be made from the stalks. His problem, and he is succeeding in it, has been to get dubious corn paper and wallboard makers to produce on a large scale and thus cheaply, to put harvester-husker-shredder-baler machines to clear farms, to persuade railroads to carry the stalks to the paper mills cheaply...