Word: units
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Northern Methodism's name for its drive is the Million Unit Fellowship Movement. A "unit" is $1 a month subscribed to the Church. Methodists may make themselves responsible for the monthly $1 or club together on a unit. The Church expects its 5,000,000 members thus to contribute $1,000,000 a month for the next year. Since its launching last November the Movement has been directed by retired Bishop Frederick Thomas Keeney of Chicago. Methodist income for world service has dipped from $8,000,000 in 1925 to $3,000,000 in 1935 but busy Bishop Keeney...
...Church of Christ, with each sect represented as a "Branch." Mr. Rockefeller, who would belong to the Baptist Branch but who has publicly announced he will give no more millions to sectarian enterprises (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935), voiced his agreement with Dr. Jones. Saying nothing about the Million Unit Fellowship, potential Christian Churchman Rockefeller declared: "It is a hopeful sign that many people are searching for a simple, fundamental religion as the way to peace, well-being and happiness. ... To the church should this quest naturally lead. But the church, with its sects, still clings to its denominationalism, in which...
When the can makers began poaching on the beer bottle preserve of the glass makers, big Owens-Illinois glass came back with a can-making unit. Last year Owens sold about $6,000,000 worth of cans, which meant perhaps 300,000,000. More annoying to American and Continental is Baltimore's Crown Cork & Seal, No. 1 maker of bottle caps. Last year Crown sold a subsidiary automotive supply business called Detroit Gasket, started to put the proceeds into tin cans. Its production last year was trifling, and even this year after a big new Philadelphia plant is completed...
Firing will end today in a postal match between the Crimson R.O.T.C. and University of Washington Naval Unit riflemen. The Crimson sharp-shooters will be trying for their first victory, since they have already lost to naval units from Northeastern and Georgia Tech...
...same relation to banking and insurance as production does to manufacturing; they characterize the business, but are not performed exclusive of other functions. As selling plays a part in manufacturing, so also it does with banking and insurance. Banking and insurance, therefore, are not to be considered as unit opportunities for the performance of a single function but are composed of several activities of which auditing, accounting, etc., are a few. These we shall discuss in this article...