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...I.ast week Mr. Raskob announced his idea for a giant investment trust for small-capital men. Theory: Let a workman take, for example, $200 to the proposed trust. For $200 he would be allowed to buy $500 worth of stock, borrowing the other $300 from a bank or subsidiary company, with his stock as collateral. He would then repay the $300 at the rate of $25 a month. Thus might small-capital men, instead of spending on the installment plan for radios, motors, refrigerators, invest in installments in sound "rich-men's" securities...
...William Hunter Workman Fellowship for graduate study and research either in this country or abroad has been awarded to John T. Edsall '23. Tutor in Bio-Chemical Sciences. The Woodbury Lowery fellowship for research in historical archives in Spain which was founded by the Duke and Duchess of Areos, in memory of Woodbury Lowery, brother of the Duchess, has been given to Carleton S. Smith...
...sold his patent-rights in a bath-tub enamelling process. He raised $100,000. His first factory was a barn in his back yard; his first workman...
Prophesies as to the future relations between the workman, the job and the machine are contained in the latest work of Stuart Chase entitled "Machines, the Story and Machinery and its Human Effects" and published by the MacMillan company. It is written as a adventurous trip into an unknown and interesting field...
...American prosperity is based upon two factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly on the fact that the American employers are not afraid to pay high wages...