Word: specialization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once issued a special postage stamp. Most helpful have been the labor organizations which, for five years past, have labored slowly toward its completion...
...enclosing an article, from the July 23, 1929 issue of the Ashland Independent which we feel will be of special interest to your readers. Certainly the wearing of white pants by workers around a steel mill is an innovation...
...farm co-operation strode on the U. S. scene. Incorporated at $50,000,000 as the United Growers of America, this new co-operative purposed to bring together into one large selling agency fruit and vegetable growers throughout the land, exclusive of California. It will maintain cold storage warehouses, special transportation equipment, practice "big business" sales methods. Sixty fruit and truck co-operatives in 25 states have already pledged themselves to market through it. Its board chairman: Julius Howland Barnes, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, one-time president of U. S. Grain Corp. Its counsel: Aaron...
...afflicted U. S. farmers, restricted the water supplies of many communities (TIME, Aug 12), made tinder for forest fires. Sunspots become active in regular 11-year cycles. Although the present cycle was at its top in 1928, its 1929 decline has been little, according to measurements at the special solar observatories in southern California, Chile, South Africa. But although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were, as students of government weather reports know,* light snows last winter, early thaws last spring, winds...
Hardly a U. S. adman reached Europe without his wife. In addition there were some 300 female delegates. So Kate Kleefeld Stresemann, wife of the German Foreign Minister, came forward, chairman of a special committee, took the ladies by the hand. That was a pleasure for alert Frau Stresemann. There in a body she could study the genus U. S. woman, of which Berlin women have read in the works of Sinclair Lewis, who lately sojourned in Germany with éclat. As advertising goes, the Foreign Minister's wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering...