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Sunk for fair, German State Railways today manages to run within three or four hours of schedule, hauls 8,000 carloads of freight daily to the Siegfried Line, does the best it can to move millions of German workers and political delegates around the country free of charge, to an endless succession of congresses and demonstrations...
...Today, W. M. Welch Manufacturing Co. is a $500,000 Chicago concern. Although diplomas have become so common that most of their owners scorn to display them, practically no graduate of the nation's 30,000 high schools and 1,000 colleges would dream of leaving school without one, and most elementary school graduates demand them, too. Mr. Welch's company, which supplies twice as many as any other firm, sells some 500,000 a year in high schools and colleges and 100,000 in elementary schools. Last week it started production of the 1939 models...
Most elaborate diplomas in the U. S. today are those of the U. S. Naval and Military Academies. Annapolis' shows "Davy Jones' Locker'' (see cut, p. 59). West Point's has pictures of soldiers, drums, cannon, a suit of armor. As a general thing, however, the more important the school, the smaller and simpler the diploma...
...year. Busy turning them out are some 1,200 institutions, including normal schools (now rapidly being converted into teachers' colleges) and liberal arts colleges. Because the liberal arts colleges expect more of their graduates to enter teaching than any other single profession, liberal arts and teachers' colleges today are deadly competitors. Teachers' colleges are busy awarding points in many professional courses but fail to give their students a broad education. The liberal arts colleges turn out many graduates more interested in scholarship than in the children they are to teach...
Five years later he did so. Today, Jarman Shoe Co., its name changed to General Shoe Corp., turns out 30,000 pairs of shoes a day, is the fifth largest U. S. shoe manufacturer. Last week a syndicate headed by Smith, Barney & Co. offered 150,000 shares of General Shoe preparatory to listing on the New York Stock Exchange; impressed by the company's record and prospects, investors promptly bid up the new shares to a small premium...