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This process is usually of a more or less technical nature and requires engineering skill, or at least, an engineering attitude. In the steel business, for example, the various functions from mining, extracting, and smelting, down to the final processes which prepare steel products, technical skill is necessary. Engineering training is essential...
...other reason why few men from liberal arts colleges go into the production field is contained in a letter received from one of the large steel companies: "We have no objection to the liberal arts college man. He has an education and training that will make him valuable to our business. We find, however, that very frequently men from the liberal arts colleges are unwilling to put on overalls and go into the mill, that they dislike the dirty and laborious work that is required; and it is our experience that many men will not stick. We are, however, perfectly...
...England aristocrat, while another owned a small automobile agency in Missouri. One peg had been worn smooth with a quarter-century's public service, while another had never been outside the steel business. Two pegs were frankly politicians, stuck in as rewards for services rendered, and for convenience in services to come. Two others had snugly filled their holes for eight years under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. One peg was an old college friend, another a Democrat except in Presidential elections...
...Manhattan, the most discussed musical arrival was Clemens Krauss of Vienna and Frankfort, one of the Continent's outstanding maestros, on his way to be guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For luggage Conductor Krauss carried the latest novelty from Vienna, a specially constructed suitcase of aluminum and steel to hold music. Customs officers, prodding through his possessions, caused him annoyance by discovering some 250 dutiable cigars. Friends soothed him with the assurance that among Philadelphia's concertgoers is many a person able, alert and eager to send a distinguished new guest conductor some good cigars...
...considering business I want you to think just a moment of the field of human endeavor as a Graph with X and Y coordinates. The Y coordinates vertical represent different types of businesses with their various sub-divisions. The steel business, for example, is divided into smelting, mining, and refining, down to machine tool work, making structural shapes, and small metal parts. There are other businesses, smaller perhaps, with various types of products, but which are, nevertheless, separate as businesses...