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...survey, Mr. Morgan offered them the Cumberland Light & Power Co. for the bargain price of $60,000. Borrowing the money, the partners bought the company, sold it some years later for $500,000. It was the profit on this operation that established Stone & Webster as a company of national scope...
...first discussed the food merger, the Fleischmann distributing system was an important consideration. The only rival for speed and regularity admitted by Fleischmann in daily national distribution is the U. S. Post-Office. The only foodstuff rivals are the various milk companies, none of which are nationwide in scope. Fleischmann's yeast is delivered fresh every day to more than 30,000 bakeries and to 250,000 groceries, delicatessens, hotels and other retail outlets. No jobbers are used?delivery is direct from 900 Fleischmann agencies. Fleischmann's operates a transportation subsidiary which has 200 railroad cars, 2,000 trucks...
When President Hoover picks the members of the now authorized Federal Farm Board, there will come into existence an agency for agriculture comparable in scope and authority with the Interstate Commerce. Commission for transportation, the Federal Reserve Board for finance...
...cursory glance at this year's curriculum shows that the scope of the summer courses has again increased over previous years, particularly in the field of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Although the courses in Education have been growing with the rest, the trend is far less pronounced in this than in the field of general academic studies, and particularly the humanities. The school begins on Monday, July 8, and closes on Friday, August 17. Except in language courses, which are an hour and a half long, instruction will be for a period of an hour...
Generous donations of books, pamphlets and manuscripts continue to pour in and these are appreciated as increasing the scope of the collection, but on the other hand they require an augmented staff and cannot remove the necessity for selectively directed purchases. Partial relief in this direction has opportunely appeared through the generosity of the anonymous donor of the $100,000 Florence T. Baker Fund. The income from this Fund is available for the purchase of books and other printed material...