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...measuring instruments whereby adult students could be guided to suitable courses, their courses of training would meet a sorely felt need in the field of adult education. Until they undertake this service, efforts of the hit-or-miss variety coupled with intensive advertising and sales campaigns must continue to brand most of these schools as merely profit-making institutions. And of more serious import, they are contributing to the formation of an unhappy and maladjusted citizenry...
...evening in November 1926, a brand new hockey team skated out on the ice of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. First was stocky, mournful-looking Bun Cook, who superstitiously insists on touching the ice before his teammates. Behind him glided his pugnacious Brother Bill, team captain, with whom he owns a big wheat farm in Saskatchewan, big, bald, grinning Ivan Wilfred ("Ching") Johnson, slender Frank Boucher, and a youngster named Murray Murdoch. With a few other teammates they made up the New York Rangers. They played that night against the Montreal Maroons...
...operated as a state owned monopoly; in spite of the direct predictions when the system was inaugurated, it has survived to confound its critics, for it has not only been run without corruption and with a substantial profit to the state, but it has also made a good brand of whiskey available at a cost of one dollar a fifth. The example of Pennsylvania stands as a rebuke and a challenge to both the Roosevelt Administration and the various state governments. NEMO...
...Rubber and the world's biggest mail order house. Sears, Roebuck (TIME, Oct. 30). Invoking the Clayton anti-trust laws and the ancient demons of discrimination, monopoly and secret rebates, the Commission attacked the contracts by which Goodyear makes cheap tires for Sears to sell under Sears' brand names. Last week's revelations...
Goodyear President Paul W. Litchfield was the least excited of all the tire executives who jam-packed the Domestic Relations Court in Akron last week. He has consistently maintained that the making of special brand merchandise is a common practice in U. S. manufacturing and wholly legitimate. Goodyear's concessions for the 1931 contract, he said, were simply a means of getting business when business was scarce...