Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bureau of Business Research has recently published a second bulletin giving a more detailed account of its investigation of the retail shoe industry. The work is similar in character to that which the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural schools have done for farming...
...addition to this intensive study of the shoe business, the Bureau has begun the collection of data on the retail clothing, grocery and hardware business in Boston. The work is at present merely preliminary. In case these industries are found to offer a practical field for intensive investigation, they will probably be subjected to detailed study...
...turns. The last item may be cited as an example of the public importance of this investigation. More stockturns would mean a greater profit without an increase in price, and fundamentally a public economy. In subsequent bulletins the Bureau will give more basic figures, by means of which every shoe retailer will be able to compare his accounts, item by item, with the average accounts of many fellow-traders and see wherein his business falls short of the average efficiency. While the conditions of manufacture have already been subjected to scientific study, little data available on retail selling. The shoe...
...true leader at all times and played his usual steady and, we are pleased to announce, rough game. The star of the game was a young man named Grinnell heretofore unheard of in hockey circles. He scored at random, and only hesitated once, that time to tie his shoe. For the Lampoon, Herter was the only man worth mentioning and his work at goal was a revelation to hockey fans. They all said they had never seen anything like it before and hoped they never would again...
...splendid training and, last year, we heard a somewhat vague story of the training of secretaries for Chambers of Commerce. But until this morning we had no definite idea of this further extension of Harvard's work to practical problems. The distribution of a Harvard System of Accounts for Shoe Retailers was a long step which is an excellent example of the strides which the Business School is making...