Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beaverishness on a gigantic scale was manifest last week when President Hoover, energetic engineer, unfolded at Cincinnati his administration's plan for developing U. S. inland waterways into one vast closeknit system of cheap transportation. The same instinct which sets him to building toy dams and clearing out rock-choked channels in tiny mountain streams moved him to advocate a river improvement policy which will cost approximately a billion dollars...
...Hoover program: 1). A consolidation of inland waterways into one system, with no more "patchwork of disconnected local improvements [which] has in the past been the sink for hundreds of millions of public money...
...Development of the Mississippi as the north-south trunk line and the "modernization" of its tributaries, to create a 9,000-mi. water transportation system in the heart of the U. S. Of this, 3,800 mi. now have a channel six feet deep or better, leaving 5,000 mi. for U. S. development Chief tributaries for improvement: Illinois (Chicago-to-the-Gulf route), Missouri (high into the wheat country), Arkansas (west to the oil fields), Tennessee (through the coal lands). Time limit: five years...
...many ways the new holding company will resemble Standard Brands, which retains the identity of its units but profits through economy in distribution. Chief unit of Standard Brands was Fleish-mann Yeast Co. with a highly specialized, rapid system of distribution famed in fact and romance. Another was nationally sold Royal Baking Powder. To the new company Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. brings an international distribution system that embraces food stores, while the marketing systems of Hershey and Colgate include candy and drug stores. With this nucleus other companies can be added, swiftly expanded...
After weeks of standing on street corners and long periods of being marooned in the center of a passing stream of automobiles. The Vagabond determined to revolt against the traffic system which so formidably threatens his career, nay his very existence. Unfortunately a call on Mayor Quinn was discouraged by the presence of two large police dogs. There was nothing left for the traveling scholar to do but gather the necessary data and prove to his readers that automobiles in Harvard Square are a menace to all true students--a danger to life and a waster of time at street...