Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sake of myself and other unenlightened ones will you kindly describe the H. B. S. type...
TIME mentioned the "type" in discussing the Hoover candidacy. TIME conceives the Harvard Business School "type," in its political aspect, to be a student of economics who puts business efficiency ahead of political parties and who thinks that "the greatest good to the greatest number" would result from having the U. S. Government administered scientifically...
Just before Christmas, Governor Smith of New York State launched an investigation of President Connolly's sewer system (TIME, Jan. 2). The system consisted, allegedly, in President Connolly's appointment of a special city engineer who specified a certain type of lock-joint pipe for Queens sewers. The sole local agent for the required pipe was President Connolly's good friend, one John M. Phillips. Monopolist Phillips sat back in his office swigging milk and whiskey, dictating pipe prices to contractors, growing rich. Borough President Connolly did not grow any poorer...
Last week Mr. Hearst's Washington Herald seized Mr. Britten's speech with a cry of joy, and spread the Rhodes Scholarship paragraph in extra big and extra black type as a text for an editorial which covered the entire top-half of a page...
Because "analysis of our sales shows that about 60% of the clerks' selling is practically automatic," and because, nevertheless, they wished to preserve certain flourishes of salesmanship, the United Cigar Stores Co. last week installed (in Manhattan) its first series of a new type of automatic cigaret machine. The customer inserts the required number of nickels in the proper machine; out drops his package of "Three Castles"; out pops a voice from the machine saying, "Thank you-corked tips protect the lips." It blares from a phonographic attachment. Or if he prefers "Barking Dogs" he hears, "Thank you-good...