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...leaves them more time for golf than when they have to spend long hours at the office wracking their brains for ways to hold their markets. In fact, to most manufacturers guaranteed prices promise heaven on earth so long as the public does not find such prices a barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful...
...shares of new $6 cumulative preferred for each share of 7% preferred and arrears; 2) five shares of new common stock for each share of Class A and arrears; 3) one share of new common stock for each share of old common. By removing the arrearage barrier to fresh dividends, the directors hoped to divide future profits among all classes of stockholders...
...probably true that the number of students in American colleges is too high. In order to decrease this number, however, the class to be eliminated must first be designated. It would be obviously unfair to make the classification on the basis of financial resources. If a scholastic barrier is set up, however, it will be found that those eliminated are mostly men able to pay their own way, since the less able of the indigent have already fallen by the wayside. Thus it is evident that, although limitation of enrollments might be beneficial, it would emphasize rather than solve...
Those words, written in Explorer Scott's diary not long before he perished in March 1912 on the Ross Ice Barrier, stirred Englishmen more than any triumphant saga would have done. They are engraved on the statue of Scott made by his widow and unveiled after the War in Devonport, the Devonshire town where he was born...
...cooperation between Washington and Wall Street. In this mutual antipathy and distrust, many economists have found a leading cause of the failure of industry to respond to the artificial stimuli embodied in recovery legislation. With this obstacle removed from the path to prosperity, the government new faces again the barrier of labor hostility. But with 20,000,000 people on the federal relief rolls, it is impossible to understand the opposition of sincere labor leaders to a program whose stated objective is the reemployment of idle millions. Granted that in this process there may be infractions of the notorious Section...