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...Register single-handed in his spare time is an absurdity the only logical result of which is its present appearance on January 8. Either an editor who can devote his full time to the work, or a board of several members is necessary. Nor is the publication for profit of a volume whose circulation seldom exceeds one thousand an easy undertaking. Both difficulties suggest the advantages of the earlier non-professional system...
...that any good road contractor would have been glad to do this work for about 18 cents a square yard. In the first six months, the company did about half its job and was paid some $1,715,000. Its costs were $600,000 leaving about $1,115,000 profit...
...what future generations will think of a twentieth century society which permitted such a practice. I know of no waste chargeable against management which compares with that in sheer futility. Labor would gain more by voluntarily giving up this tax on society than it could possibly lose. It cannot profit labor to know that some of its workers live off such a tribute levied against industry...
...September had established the existing high record of sales at 89,000 cars and trucks. These sales are mostly made to dealers, who are stocking up for the winter and spring demand as well as filling current orders. October earnings rose in proportion. At an average of $130 profit per unit, the month's business must have meant something like a $12,500,000 profit to General Motors...
...Last fall, under the same management, against which in victory, no adverse criticism had been heard. Harvard lost the game. Abuse from all sides was poured in upon the gentlemen who had given all their time, thought, and attention for many weeks. Harvard graduates and undergraduates can with profit to themselves take a needed lesson from Yale in their method of accepting refeat...