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...your money at home"). Commerce Director Julius Klein also accuses New England industry of narrowness. While studying 350 firms there, he found that only one had a business analyst. Like pre-War Europe this section has disastrous overconfidence in past methods and trade processes, whereas U. S. "industry has grown precisely because it has the highest scrapheap in the world." The machinery in one New England textile factory averaged 23 years in age. One shoe factory kept making high buttoned shoes because "Uncle Ezra," founder, had done so. Industries should balance their manufacturing schedules to run evenly the year through...
...cent, of the area of the islands is under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been done to improve them. The soil and climate of the Islands, however, is as good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only a very small percentage comes from the Philippines. If, therefore, Americans would help the Filipinos to develop their great resources, the benefit would be mutual. We need their products. The need...
...quite frivolous weekly the New-Yorker, has reached journalistic maturity--for it is being sued for "defaming the name of a citizen". The gospel of the sophisticates took occasion to criticize the structure known as the Delmonico Building, comparing the grace of the tower to that of "an over-grown grain elevator", and found that legal complications ensued. The Delmonico Building, unfortunately for the New Yorker, did not "just grow" a In Harriet Beecher Stowe, but was designed by an architect, one no less than Mr. H. Craig Severance, who appears to be extremely sensitive to derogatory remarks about...
...Campbell) has ever been Governor of Arizona since it became a state in 1912. Question: Wherefore the long-lasting potency of Governor Hunt? Perhaps it is because he was as strong as an ox and is as bald as a turtle; more likely it is because he has grown with Arizona and shaped it. In 1881 he arrived in Globe, Ariz., at the age of 21, penniless, professionless. First he became a waiter, then a cowpuncher, then a successful businessman. For 14 years before Arizona became a state, he served in the legislature; put through bills forbidding women...
Harvard will admit that the Yale spirit, that intense sentiment of community loyalty, has its merits (for Yale men); but Harvard's own tradition has in modern times been individualistic. Harvard has grown from a small college to a large college with perhaps the minimum of shock; there are more individuals than there used to be, but the individual is the unit...