Word: deductionism
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Post-war planning (TIME, Nov. 3) came out of the think stage and took its place as a debit item in the income statement of a big U.S. corporation last week. United Aircraft, announcing nine-month sales of $203,435,000, also announced a significant new deduction from them: a...
DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMAN-Ngaio Marsh-Little, Brown ($2). A deadly Maori instrument extinguishes a young Englishman at house party where everybody hates or fears everybody else-as prearranged by a thrill-seeking host. First half is brilliant British conversation piece, the remainder a prime bit of deduction and...
Dairy companies advertised bonds on 28,000,000 milk-bottle caps; Chrysler and G.M. instituted payroll deduction schemes; C.I.O. and A.F. of L. egged members into buying with literature and posters; the State tax department sent out a plug for the bonds with 108,000 sales-tax blanks. Results: sales...
The Army, no longer using the Alpha test, plans to substitute in its place the General Classification Test which abandons the old Alpha principles and concentrates on determining special potentialities of soldiers. More simplified, the new tests consist of questions in recognizing numbers, knowledge of enough vocabulary to understand orders...
Because of the increasing need for engineers in national defense work, the United States Civil Service Commission has again announced an examination to fill junior engineer positions in any branch of engineering. The salary is $2,000 a year less a 3.5 per cent retirement deduction.