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...haste to put the code into operation that he did not wait for all its rough points to be smoothed out. Still to be settled, for instance, was the tough question of "stretch outs," the practice of making one mill worker tend a larger number of looms as an offset to higher pay. But President Roosevelt could & would not tarry on details because: 1) cotton mills have lately been boosting production to finish as much goods as possible at cheap rates before their costs go up; 2) on July 17 it will be 31 days since the Recovery Administration began...
Operations in the biggest steel districts -Pittsburgh and Chicago-have dragged down the U. S. average. Most companies can break even at 35 to 40% of capacity but for only a few will this mean a second quarter profit. Low April operations will more than offset the recent expansion. Nevertheless, U. S. Steel preferred was last week within a few points of par and the common at 56 had more than doubled its Old Deal...
Quite possibly this conclusion is correct, but it would be safer to assume simply that the compensation offered the tutor, both financially and in prestige, does not offset the satisfaction of lecturing, and the more mysterious pleasures of research. The University is being forced to pay a heavy price for the unwillingness of the older members of the Faculty to accept tutees. The lack of interest and experience manifested by so many of the present tutors is generating a corresponding slackness in the average student, and the first efforts of the new administration ought to be aimed at correcting...
...burden upon the taxpayers necessitated by such a government expenditure would be offset by other advantages. All classes of laborers are given work. Furthermore, a naval program is a stimulus to a wide variety of industries, so that employment is possible for the man who works in the mines, the lumber yards as well as the steel mills and many others." Mr. Adams cited the example of France, which he said was now the most prosperous nation in the depression. "France has made tremendous outlays for army and navy. The question is not merely an economic one, for the United...
Students anxious to retain in their minds the general reading knowledge of German which they may have gathered in German A or 1A will find their desires fulfilled in this course of German 2, in which the prep school style of conducting the class is offset by some rather valuable reading in Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Thomas Mann, and other famous writers of past or present times...