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...turned the tide against Napoleon; today, "The Reichstag has voted a law to establish universally courses in physical training, lasting from one to two years, for all young men under twenty-five. Under an inoffensive name it has in reality created a complete system of intensive military training." The comparison is obvious...
...tennis. Again, this should be easier than with the other sports, because the needed equipment is more easily available. Much unused space is Soldiers Field (if no more convenient place can be found) should be utilized for tennis courts, which could be constructed at an expense entirely moderate in comparison to their value...
...comparison of gross profits for the past year with the preceding year shows a gain of nearly $10,000. Harvard Store 1920 1921 Profit on Sales, $126,515 $127,625 Other Income, 16,409 13,145 Technology Branch Profit on Sales, 45,117 53,396 Other Income, 2,797 3,160 Barber Shop Earnings, 8,057 10,747 Totals...
...also have been glad to find that a good many wholesale grocers could make use of the results of this research immediately in the practical, everyday management of their business. The figures on the cost of doing business have been used extensively for purposes of comparison. When a wholesale grocer has put his own figures beside the average for the trade, he frequently has found the exact point at which his expense was too heavy. In some cases it was sales force expense. When his attention was called to that point, further investigation usually proved to him that the reason...
...already had a piece rate department and had practised a system of price setting through time study. Nevertheless, the force was small and the field large. Many of the prices, therefore, were the result of comparison with prices obtained from more or less unreliable sources. Many times the biased information of the foreman was accepted and lacked a consideration of all the conditions. Moreover, the time study man was looked upon by the shop as an undesirable citizen. His position was very hard to fill and very little thought of by those who might be competent. He was the object...