Word: yntema
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the actual work will fall on C.E.D.'s research director, Chicago's tall, suave Theodore Otte Yntema (whose salary is $20,000 a year) and on his assistants : Gardiner Means, of the now-defunct National Resources Planning Board, and Howard Myers, ex-economist...
...Yntema is best known to business men for the price studies he prepared for U.S. Steel during the TNEC investigation, which proved - at least to Big Steel's satis faction - that the industry's pricing poli cies were about right. His contribution to C.E.D. cannot yet be judged: the Division's first studies come out this fall...
...student of U.S. political economy. Chairman of its important research committee is Ralph E. Flanders, president of Jones & Lamson Machine Co., flanked by Beardsley ("Pay-as-you-go") Ruml, chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and University of Chicago's top-flight economist, Theodore Otte Yntema (pronounced Ine temma), as fulltime director...
...firm which usually makes 35% of the nation's steel ingots is given to saying that the corporation ought to get a price high enough to cover costs. Last week, to explain prices to the TNEC, Ben Fairless produced an expert, University of Chicago Statistics Professor Theodore Ott Yntema. Substance of sharp-eyed, youthful Expert Yntema's very technical mathematical-metaphysical testimony: the corporation is burdened with large inflexible costs; steel sales do not rise in proportion as the price falls; therefore, price cuts reckon without inflexible costs and demand, lead to bankruptcy...