Word: methods
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Navies & Personnel. While proposing to limit land and air "material" (fighting equipment) exclusively by the budget method, the Draft Convention, so far as navies are concerned, supplements "budgetary limitation" by tearing a leaf from the London Naval Treaty (TIME, April...
...Henry Ford undertook to grow rubber in Brazil. His idea was not to use the wild trees, but to clear the jungle, adopt the plantation method, use selected seeds. Great were the tales of what Ford Initiative plus Ford Ingenuity plus Ford Resource plus the fertile Amazon soil would produce...
...preferential method of voting will be followed in the case of the three Marshals, first position counting three points, second position two, and third, one. For the other offices and the Senior Class Album Committee the men with the largest number of votes will hold the position. All ballots will have to be signed by the voter...
...proposed class insurance plan, which will appear on the Senior Class ballots tomorrow morning, provides a new option among the methods heretofore offered for the contribution to the class fund. A yearly budget method of preparing for the twenty-fifth reunion has been found both more productive and more acceptable to the majority of graduates than a haphazard system of gifts and contributions. Consequently it must be admitted that whatever method of payment is used, it must become in, which there is a regular and cumulative supply of funds being gathered over a period of years...
When the first uncertainty and wariness passes after reading the proposed plan, the immediate perception seems to be that the method outlined means something for nothing. A closer study, of course, reveals that it is not quite that, but that it is almost a matter of killing two birds with one stone. By way of explanation, it may be assumed that the majority of graduating students will, if they have not already done so, invest in some form of life insurance. A smaller majority also plan, in accordance with the precepts of duty and in preparation for a future junket...