Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major price breakthrough showed up in Manhattan where R. H. Macy & Co. and Gimbel Bros, teamed up against Lionel Corp.'s suit to stop the department stores from cutting prices on electric trains. Macy accused Lionel of discriminating against the department stores in favor of discount houses, of using department stores as "showcases and [to] provide ... an umbrella for price-cutting ..." Said Macy Attorney Donald Smiley: "Discount houses have been making a mockery of Fair Trade prices." As a result, Macy, Gimbels and other New York department stores kept right on discounting scores of Fair Trade products, and were...
Root described the Assembly as much more than an ordinary convention. "It it an opportunity," he said, "to train the leadership of the free nations in an ideology that will sweep the world." A meeting was held yesterday at the home of George C. Shattuck, clinical professor of Tropical Medicine, emeritus, to interest several faculty members in attending the Assembly...
Under the plan the prevailing draft conditions would be continued for men 18 1/2 through 25. Boys aged 17 and 18 could volunteer, train for eight months, and then go into the reserves subject to continued reserve training, and to call for active duty in emergencies...
Rugby holds a unique place among Harvard sports, owing to its non-existent training rules. Playing the game because they like it, the ruggers train hard at practice, smoke all they want, play a violent 70-minutea game, at the end of which they are in a state of near-unconsciousness, and then have a big party to recover for the next match...
...young man today perhaps should look on banks in the same way that he looks upon other well-managed corporations. Large banks face the same managerial problems. They must develop experts in the control of the flow of credit. They must train men who can become experts in the field of management and personnel. They must have top investment analysts as well as individuals far advanced in the field of public relations. It is therefore important for the individual, regardless of what particular area he fits into, to gain a general knowledge of finance...