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...important as the actual placement of seniors is the service rendered by the Placement Office in aiding students to make a vocational choice--not only among the various opportunities in industry itself, but also more generally between business and entirely different professional occupations. The quantitative significance of this function is strikingly indicated by the fact that almost 53 per cent of the seniors registering last year with the Office had no ideas or intentions concerning an occupation...
...Placement Office is to perform this function efficiently, it is of the utmost desirability that students intending to seek its aid register early in their college careers--even in the sophomore year. The services which the Office can then render them are of a somewhat intangible nature, but nevertheless of great value. It can, first of all, start them thinking seriously and correctly about a choice of career. Because of the complexities of a vocational decision as well as its importance toward a productive and happy life, it requires, not merely a snap judgment in the senior year when...
...memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future. Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, whose duties are to be those of a minister for civilian defense, blamed the whole thing on "enormous" British inertia, called upon all parties to "cooperate to prove that Democracy can function to protect itself as efficiently as a Dictatorship." Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, while admitting "many mistakes of omission and commission," emphasized that His Majesty's Government did distribute 38,000,000 gas masks to the public, helped dig trenches in which 1,000,000 Britons could have huddled...
...person good bowel function may mean one movement every day. In another ... it may mean one movement every three or four days. . . . The dictum that a bowel movement every day is necessary for good health is absolutely false. Every person's bowel has its own individual law of frequency of movement. . . . Constipation exists [only] if defecation is difficult or painful, or if there is a sense of incompleteness of evacuation...
Weaver's own answer to such criticism is that his type of customer research must not be regarded merely as a functional activity, but as an operating philosophy which pervades every GM activity. He likes to regard himself as a symbol of a growing trend in Big Business to consider every corporate action, no matter how trivial, from the point of view of how it affects the public. Under this theory public relations becomes an integral part of any manufacturing function, even research. GM baldly admits this: though Henry Weaver's boss is Richard H. Grant, vice president...