Word: transferability
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...wrappers to ginger ale labels, from candy box covers to containers for permanent wave pads. Lately Reynolds has added building materials, and it is in that division that the company is presumably about to expand. Chief building product is aluminum foil insulation, which because of its shiny finish minimizes transfer of heat by radiation. Most building insulation simply reduces heat transfer through conduction and convection. Another important Reynolds building product is an ingenious prefabricated lathing, sold with or without a foil backing...
...editorial "Futile Bluster" blithely dismisses the New England textile problem by advising New England to "transfer its capital and labor into other fields of industrial activity." Conceding the superficiality of the rumpus over the processing tax and Hearst's Japanese situation, we find that this problem presents many difficulties not covered by the editorial...
...will decrease slowly, while relief expenditures will increase as years go on. No new industry can take advantage of the idle labor force because of the prohibitive tax rate, and a collapse is inevitable. Then who will feed the workers, and who will pay the cities' defaulted obligations? The "transfer" of capital and labor is a process depending upon the mobility of the capital and labor force. The removal of several good sized cities will take a long time, and the shorter the time, the greater the pain of adjustment. In the south, if a mill closes, the operatives...
...Japanese competition. By inflexible economic laws, industry in the long run tends to locate in that section of the country where conditions are most favorable to its development. The future of New England will depend on the speed with which it recognizes this economic fact and begins to transfer its capital and labor into other fields of industrial activity...
Month ago it was announced that J. Pierpont Morgan had sold six of his father's most valuable paintings (TIME, Feb. 11). The proceeds were to be used some day by Banker Morgan's executors to pay for the transfer of his estate to his heirs. Last week came another announcement: in May or June 900 gem-studded Morgan miniatures on ivory, valued at $600,000, will go on sale at Christie's in London...