Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work with the same result. He has invented the micro-motion and chronocyclegraph processes for determining the fundamental units and methods of industrial education. Before a special background fitted with a dial to record the time element, Mr. Gilbreth's expert assistant photographs the best workers in each trade to illustrate their methods. At 4.45 today at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, he will demonstrate the use of the moving picture camera as an aid in job analysis...
...owner. Proximity of coal and iron to the ship yards is an appreciable factor, just as the nearness of timber to the New England harbors helped to make the old square-rigger a cheap instrument of conveyance. But the dominant factor is the place of the English export coal trade. A "tramp" carrying bulky raw goods to England for manufacture can always count upon a return cargo of coal; and to be profitable a "tramp" must never sail empty...
...radio industry has developed overnight, and no laws for its control have been adequately formulated. Recently (TIME, Feb. 4), the Federal Trade Commission arraigned the Radio Corporation of America as a monopoly, along with its large corporate owners, but nothing much resulted from...
Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures in New York, was prompt to address a letter to the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, attacking the A. T. & T. Co. as a monopoly against the "common people" in the approved Hylan manner. His letter has opened up again the whole question as to the future status of the control of radio broadcasting, and whether it shall or not be allowed to drift into exclusive control...
Others see the question differently. To Mr. Whalen it is : "Are the common people in danger?" to the Federal Trade Commission it is : "Has a violation of the Sherman anti-trust act been committed?" Congress, immersed in Teapot Dome and its byproducts, ignored the question...