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...educators today are less prone to boast of the cash value of a college education than they were before 1929, most candidates for a degree still are more interested in cash than culture. Last week two professors waggled warning fingers at money-minded optimists, gave prospective graduates a "realistic yardstick" to measure their financial prospects...
Retailers, like the National Retail Dry Goods Association, were horrified. Might not the cut price become a yardstick for all dry goods? How would the Government decide who was to get goods cheaply, who expensively...
Schoolmarms formerly used yardsticks both for measuring and for smacking. That the New Deal is similarly using its power yardstick was last week apparent in Texas and Tennessee...
...little Fiorello H. LaGuardia. who is financing Relief expenditures through an emergency sales tax, lately turned down a proffered PWA $2,700,000. explaining that he found it cheaper to finance necessary improvements privately. Last week Dun & Bradstreet's Frederick Bird gave municipal financiers a warning, a yardstick...
Before and after Arthur Morgan. Messrs. H. A. Morgan and David Lilienthal were heard. Said H. A. Morgan: "TVA is a good thing." Said David Lilienthal: "We cut red tape and went right ahead" (to set up TVA's yardstick in 1933). Later studies, he explained, showed that the rates he originally hit upon were sound...