Word: units
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production cost is already as low in a particular industrial unit as is feasible under present conditions. Ergo merge industrial units and thereby effect economies otherwise impossible...
...last week, offered "close cooperation, feeling that the plan was sound and for the good of the industry." When, as, and if the Flint merger is effected, he will borrow from the public some $50,000,000, for additional working capital, and will set operating as one industrial unit some 1,500,000 spindles. Yarn will be furnished more cheaply than ever before (said Flint & Co.) to industries which make bathing suits, shoe laces, automobile tires, underwear, rugs, laces and electrical wires...
...establishment at Harvard in the fall of 1926 of the naval science unit was part of a great experiment, simultaneously engineered by the government at Yale, Georgia Tech and in a number of colleges on the Pacific Coast. It is yet too early for judgement of the experiment in the same definite terms which made ascertainable the success of the corresponding venture in military science. Marked, however, by the shaping of study to the pleasure as well as profit of the student, the nearing close of the second year of naval science at Harvard may be said to have given...
...city problems, is intolerable. Where city controls country, farmers are equally vexed. Most of the States, says Professor Merriam, are the anachronistic creatures of surveyors' chains. "The nation and the city are vigorous organs. . . . The truth is that the State is standing on slippery ground as a political unit...
...field of concentration, Sociology and Social Ethics, which is to take the place of the present field of Social Ethics. The headline which accompanied the story was misleading inasmuch as Sociology and Social Ethics is to be not a new department but merely a field of concentration. As a unit of instruction the Social Ethics department will continue as before. That new field of concentration will offer courses in several departments including Social Ethics, History, Economics, and Philosophy...