Word: developement
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...years the managers of the New York clubs have been trying to develop a Jewish player. There are plenty of Italians, Swedes, Irishmen in baseball-few Jews. Critics have pointed out that a Jewish star on a New York team would pack in thousands of new spectators at every game. And now, on the bright turf in front of them, the people saw a Jew begin his career-Andy Cohen, second baseman, picked from the minor leagues to take the place of the famed Rogers Hornsby. And when Cohen had brought home the first Giant run of the season...
...training is by no means necessary to business success, and some have gone so far as to say that it is almost a detriment. In contrast to the professions, it has been felt that a business career does not require intellectual keenness of the sort that colleges seek to develop in their students. In this connection, therefore, the conclusions reached by Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in an article in the current issue of Harper's Magazine are particularly arresting...
...Radio Corporation is now working to develop television. When perfected, it will be of great help to business firms as they will be able to send photographs of bonds and checks across the country and across the ocean. Looking into the future, Mr. Sarnoff saw a time when mail would be sent by television. Another field of experiment is the talking moving picture. Sarnoff concluded his lecture by stressing the fact that the radio is essential to modern business...
...logs brought a profit. He sank the money in an Oklahoma oil pool and came out with $100,000. Soon he was a millionaire producer with properties dotted all through the midwest, from southern Kansas to northern Texas. He would spot a place, buy or lease it, develop it, sell out and look for another place. He kept control of richest wells...
...nature of the "rights" possessed by U. S. holders of Mexican lands in 1917 shall include "oil rights" only in case it can be proved that they performed some "positive act" showing that they were developing or proposed to develop their lands to produce...