Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itself answers "Marketing," or "Factory Production," or, if more inclusively, it answers "Management," and there should be no academic equipment in these fields, what should be done? What shifts and devices, what combinations of planning and improvisation what watchful anxiety and what adventure, lay on this frontier of the unknown! If there were no teachers anywhere to be found, then let young pioneers train themselves as teachers. If there was no teaching material in print, then it must be quarried out of the mine of current business practice and a Bureau of Business Research must be created. If no case...
...question: Good morning, have you used Pear's Soap? Yet, though Lux, Lifebuoy and Pear's all are Lever Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World...
What had happened evidently was that in Denver some person or persons unknown, having knowledge of the confidential code through which bankers transfer money, had written six coded wires, had fraudulently added the six Denver signatures. Banks customarily act upon these coded telegrams without checking back on them. Given a knowledge of the code and a willingness to misuse it, there was no great difficulty in working the $500,000 fraud. Sole precaution on the part of the defrauder was that the money should be collected before the trickery was discovered...
...14th, left the tournament i down. "I'm proud," said young John Goodman, "but I'm sorry." Some people thought it was a "good thing for the game." Others thought an 18-hole match was unfair, especially when young John Goodman lost his next match, 2 and 1, to unknown 18-year-old William Lawson Little...
...Each year on "Tap Day" at Yale (third Thursday in May) four telephone lines are laid from the "tombs" of the four senior societies to four unknown rooms on the "old campus" of Yale College so that potentates in the "tombs" may know how successfully the tapping is going for their society. Under the elms, 60 desired men are chosen, the telephones removed, the tomb-to-room connections severed...