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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large guns of German make in the hills around Algeciras, commanding Gibraltar; a number of long-range 5.9-inch weapons have been installed along the coast "so placed that they could drop shells in Gibraltar but yet are invisible from the highest point on the rock": nine naval-type guns are located on Punta Carnero, on the west side of Gibraltar bay, and at least one 15-inch weapon on a high peak near Alcála de los Gazules, some 40 miles inland; 45 more guns, ranging in size from six to 15 inches, have been...
...Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money to pay the postage for his personal opinions-that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry. Fortunately . . . that type of executive is a rarity...
...electrical frequencies, tried it out with gratifying success. The currents are separated in pitch by 300 cycles. A generator adapted to Western Union's purposes costs about $1,000. By this technique the company sends telegrams from Manhattan to Chicago, Washington, Buffalo, Atlanta. Practical effect of the Hammond-type generator will be to reduce the number of wires necessary for intercity service, thus saving a sizable chunk of maintenance costs as the unnecessary wires are retired from service...
...being a one-man arbiter of everything. He extended the bonus system to the whole company. As the only major executive in the country with leaf-buying, manufacturing and selling experience he was a logical choice as McKitterick's successor. And as the cool, careful, level-headed type he was well fitted to guide Philip Morris from a small unit with big ideas to actual bigness...
...Ford's educational ideas are a curious mixture of the old-fashioned and modern. He calls his schools "the McGuffey type," and they reproduce as much as possible the old little red schoolhouse. No advocate of mass production in education, he likes small schools, small classes, individual instruction. But his schools have no more in common with the McGuffey type of education than the Ford has with a horse. Instead of learning from textbooks, Henry Ford's pupils learn by doing, from trips, planting, harvesting, building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters...