Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From then on Emerson picked a careful way between the life of culture and the culture of life. The cranks besieged him. but he was impregnable. He continued to lecture far & wide. Far & wide he circulated, like a cultured bacillus, trying to infect the U. S. with some symptoms of a native civilization. He organized literary clubs, the Transcendental Club; with Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes. Agassiz, Dana he joined the Boston Saturday Club. He tried to introduce Whitman to his Boston friends but Lowell demurred?"a New York tough, a frequenter of low places." Finally his energies ran low; his memory...
...American people seems hardly strong enough to prevent mulcting the public a la Jay Gould without drastic regulation. But the later effectiveness of the Interstate Commerce Commission points the way to a practical control of American economy. The basic industries of the nation do business on a nation-wide scale, and are subject to control by the federal government. Thus it has the power to establish a truly effectual regulation of the commerce, and to institute a measure of the economic order which is needed. It is too soon to hope for developments of such magnitude, but when they come...
...august New York Times appeared the following contribution, translated by a wide-awake Times correspondent from the French of a Neuchatel (Switzerland) schoolboy...
...overcome: 1) they have been unable to carry the huge stocks that have made successes of such stores as Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co.; 2) in the case of stores specializing in a few types of goods, the branches have not always been able to carry so wide a variety as the main stores, have had to resort to samples. This second handicap Franklin Simon & Co., with a large modern building on Boston Post Road, a heavy stock of women's clothes and special features including a beauty shop, solarium, children's barber shop and terrace tea room, expects...
...general frankness a wide range is covered. Eastman Kodak used to report only earnings, now reveals depreciation charges but not sales. The exact nature of Allied Chemical's huge investment account is hidden in the phrase "U. S. Government and other marketable securities." Reynolds Tobacco has described its investment in its own stock as "investment in noncompetitive companies." The railroads, because of the prescribed I. C. . accounting system, are models of honesty. Such leading companies as General Motors and U. S. Steel give enough data for anyone except a super-statistician. While some companies may discontinue reporting sales, businessmen...