Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...keep some men very busy, but it keeps Owen D. Young busy because of another quality which made him internationally invaluable at Paris: his sensitiveness to, his prescience of the Future. Never a technician, he is nonetheless obsessed with the idea that some day it may be possible to write a message on a pad at one's desk or bedside and have it instantaneously transmitted to the addressee anywhere on earth. No trained artist, he has been stirred, by Radio Corp.'s development from a communications business into an amusement business, to ponder the potentialities of radio...
...ships and American banks for our foreign trade, our need for an army of trained salesmen and employes is more acute. Following academic education it is, of course, necessary to have practical training. If a man doesn't know his product he is lost, even if he can write as many volumes as Sir Walter Scott. The first necessity for a young man engaged in foreign trade is a knowledge of the particular business in which he is employed. . . . We have seized unfairly the commerce of no people. We have taken no mean advantage of the extremity of others...