Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Born into the great American boom town of the 1890's, Pittsburgh, and educated at Wellesley, she made an important place for herself in industry before the World War broke out. The story of her twelve years as "employment superintendent" at the Clothcraft Shops in Cleveland is an engrossing study in human relations. Handling those thousands of workers in that plant was like playing an intricate, many-stringed instrument. Mary Gilson lost herself in the task of introducing scientific management in those shops, and succeeded in making them a standout example of good industrial relations. This...
...which office houses the set by using portable detector outfits, small enough to fit into a vest pocket and equipped with indicators geared to rise with proximity to the transmitter. Most such bootleg equipment is used by gamblers, who are often able, by means of quick flashes, to place last-minute bets on horse races already...
...soon as "the slack of unemployment has been taken up." Said Mr. Sloan: "America today is working a shorter number of hours per week than any other nation-certainly any other involved in war or defense. Output can be increased 20% by working six days a week in place of five." Mr. Sloan also warned that the greatest source of inflationary danger is in the increase in the wage rate...
...last acts before fleeing the country had been to give her brother Constantin Shloim Lupescu 4,500,000 lei ($23,400) to help tide him over the hard, anti-Semitic days ahead. After her flight, Brother Constantin was sufficiently urged by the police to show them the place in the wall of his home where he had hidden the funds. They were confiscated. The police also found other millions of lei hidden around Constantin's property, a secret cellar containing 365 bottles of champagne from the royal cellars...
...into two compartments by a block of agar (marked C in the diagram). The two blobs, a and b, are in separate chambers but are connected by the strand which runs through a small hole in the agar. Protoplasmic streaming from a to b and vice versa can take place through the strand...