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...guided to suitable courses, their courses of training would meet a sorely felt need in the field of adult education. Until they undertake this service, efforts of the hit-or-miss variety coupled with intensive advertising and sales campaigns must continue to brand most of these schools as merely profit-making institutions. And of more serious import, they are contributing to the formation of an unhappy and maladjusted citizenry...
...extraordinary gathering that approved such a modest financial report. It included George J. Mead, director of United Aircraft, who last month told a Senate Committee how his $207 investment zoomed to a paper profit of $7,800,000; Glenn L. Martin, builder of swift Army bombers; Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, builder of Navy airships and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's department of mechanical engineering; Dr. Theodor von Karman, famed Hungarian aerodynamicist in charge of aeronautics research at California Tech; Willis Ray Gregg, new No. 1 U. S. Weatherman; Elmer A. Sperry of gyroscope fame and many...
...profits for 1933 were reported at $83,214,000, equivalent to $1.72 a share on the common, against a profit of only...
...dead themes. This is the second fallacy, to expect of the arts a type of scholarship proper only to science, to require this scholarship from young men, and thereby to discourage them in that leisurely, deep, and sincere study of their field which might bring forth works of real profit to mankind...
...encouragement to be found in Pennsylvania. Liquor stores in the state are operated as a state owned monopoly; in spite of the direct predictions when the system was inaugurated, it has survived to confound its critics, for it has not only been run without corruption and with a substantial profit to the state, but it has also made a good brand of whiskey available at a cost of one dollar a fifth. The example of Pennsylvania stands as a rebuke and a challenge to both the Roosevelt Administration and the various state governments. NEMO...