Management The Thing That Counts in Big Business
The piece traces America’s long push toward large firms from Rockefeller’s era to the 1929 merger trend and Twentieth Century Fund findings. It notes that big firms profit more on average, yet small companies incur larger losses, and that management quality, not size, drives success. It cautions the era of bigness may fade if leadership remains key.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Rockefeller
Twentieth Century Fund
Bees In Cars Warn Of Tragic Auto Crashes
A column recounts a death where a driver died after crashing while trying to brush a bee from his car. It offers safety steps: do not panic, avoid swatting, open both doors to vent and help the bee escape, then continue driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson
Terraplane
Utah Salt Flats
America
Birth rate decline and rising deaths alarm U S Secretary Roper
Secretary of Commerce Roper releases figures showing last year’s birth rate at 16.6 per thousand, a tenth of a point above the 1943 low, while the death rate reaches 11.5 per thousand, a new high. He warns continued declines threaten national progress and compares with France, Italy, and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commerce Roper
Roper
Census Bureau
France
Italy
Germany
United States
Piano Staging Real Comeback In Depression Era
The piano, once considered dying due to phonographs and radios, is making a notable comeback. May shipments jumped nearly 80 percent year over year, and first five months of 1937 show 20.4 percent more shipments than the first half of 1936. Strong order growth and renewed affection for Chopin and Rachmaninoff accompany signs of a revived home music market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chopin
Lisa
Rubinstein
Rachmaninoff
Paderewski
Anniversaries and birth notices span notable figures
A compiled list marks today in history and birthdays of Reuben Massey Fanny Elssler Robert McLane Felix Darley Nathan Boynton Bronson Cutting and others. It notes historic events such as Penns treaty and Clive's Plassy victory, plus a horoscope and histories of political figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuben D. Massey
New England
Ohio
Dor
Pelham
N. H
Boston
Fanny Elssler
Robert M. McLane
Baltimore
Maryland
Wilmington
Del
Felix O. C. Darley
Philadelphia
Nathan S. Boynton
Michigan
Port Huron
Mich
Order of the Knights of the Maccabees
Bronson Cutting
Mexico
Oaledale
N. Y
Mary
William Penn
Clive
Plassy
India
Paris
William Kelly
Kentucky Iron Works
Patent Office
Bessemer
Bible Readings And Meditations Wednesday June 23
A brief devotional notes ethical conduct as the fruit of salvation from Ephesians 3 6 11 9 8 10 41. Saints are formed by Christ not by merit. Christianity is ethical and biological with new life first then fruit. Moody quote: lighthouses blow no trumpets they shine.
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Christ
D. L. Moody
New York Day By Day By D. C. McIntyre
New York writer D C McIntyre surveys social trends and memory in New York City noting cocktail parties as evolving from quiet tea time chats to social rackets. He preserves cultural fragments from meals and porch scenes and cites science fiction growth, praising John Taine as a noted writer and identifying his real name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Brad
Frank Merriwell
Frank Reade, Jr
Nick Carter
John Taine
Eric Bell
California
Fragmented reminiscences and sport recollections from 1937 column
A collage of literary musings and sports reminiscences features Ray Long on electrons, poetic park scenes at sunset, and memories of Connie Mack and Mrs. John McGraw. It notes McGraw’s long rivalry with Mack and Mrs McGraw's cultured radio voice, plus a Western Virginia hotel query and a Hungary birth count in a clipped syndicated item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jon Cook
Connie Mack
John McGraw
McGraw
Mack
Baltimore Orioles
MecGraw
Mufti
Community notices from South Amherst and area
The local page lists church and society events including a church hike at Bochatetn Woods on Thursday evening with a 6:00 meeting, a Congregational Ladies Dime Society tea at Mrs. Herman Witt’s home Thursday afternoon, and a Silver Tea by Circle two of the St. John’s Woman’s Union on the Mort lawn. It also notes various brief social visits and dinners among families in Lorain and Elyria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Amherst
Thung People's League of
Circle Two
St. John’s Woman's Union
Paul Mort
Martin Springer
Russel
Lola
William Blaser
Lorain
Alex Garland Jr
Elyria
Gebel Aulia Dam on the Nile Completed Early
The Gebel Aulia Dam south of Khartoum is completed three months ahead of schedule. It spans four miles in length and stands 60 feet high. The dam will affect the White Nile level for about 300 miles downstream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gebel Aulia
Nile
Khartoum
White Nile
Tie breaking puzzles mailed to perfect solvers
Rule No 6 ties require a 90 puzzle tie breaking set sent by registered mail to every contestant with all 90 correct solutions. If not received by Wednesday June 23 notify OLD GOLD CONTEST at P O Box 9 Varick Street Station New York NY by midnight June 26 1937. No claims postmarked after June 26 will be recognized.
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P. O
Varick Street Station
New York
N.Y
Varicky Street Station
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U. S
Zeee
Christopher Latham Sholes
Carlos Glidden
Samuel W. Soule
Milwaukee
Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum
Irvin S. Cobb
Santa Monica
Cal
Paducah
F. Ryan Duffy
Wisconsin
Fond du Lat
Wis
George R. Luna
New York State
Public Service
Schenectady
Lenox
Iowa
William A. Taylor
Washington, D. C
Dept. of Agriculture
Chelsea
Charles D. Hilles
Republican National Committee
Belmont Co
Laurie, Erskine
New Hope
Scotland
Duke of Windsor
King Edward VII
Britain
Terraplone
STANG
Broad Street
D. C. McIntyre
Grandpa
Martha Raye
Central Park
Pierre
Hampshire House
Paradise
Essex Tower
Broadway
Ted Woodyard
West Virginia
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Flora Kanalas
Janoshalma
Hungary
Amherst
Elyria Hardware
Wilmot Printing Co
Masonic Temple
Noah Webster
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Stuart Mill
Henry Clay
Juliet Capalet
Admiral Dewey
Artemus Ward
Napoleon Bonaparte
William Shakespeare
Charles Lamb
John J. McGraw
Daniel Boone
William F. Cody
Sam Houston
Alexander Hamilton
Betsy Ross
Caesar Borgia
Belmont
Becky Sharp
Anatole France
Montague Glass
Andrew Jackson
Roudyard Kipling
Stephen Crane
Lillie Langtry
Victor Hugo
Lucy Stone
Barbara Frietchie
Cyrus W. Field
Paul Revere
Jamez Boswell
John Tyler
Christopher Columbus
William Gladstone
Enrico Caruso
Jeanne Engels
Rovte Rockne
Ana Hathensy
Roscoe Arbuckle
Mark Twain
Thomas Hardy
George Sand
Aaron Burt
King Solomon
Alexander Graham Belt
James Buchanan
Anthony Comstock
Aristotle
Abraham Lincoln
Marquis de Montcalm
Tom Sawyer
Louiss M. Alcott
John Keats
Eugene Victor Debs
Marcus Loew
Grover Cleveland
William Howard Taft
Elbert Hubbard
Martin van Buren
Tobias Smollett
Benjamin Altman
Carl Schurz
Warren Hastings
David Belasco
Chateaubriand
Joel Chandler Harris
Morgan Dix
Maria Chapman
Marat
Howard Pyle
Elias Howe
Oliver Weavell Holmes
Reginald de Koven
de Witt Clinton
Jenny Lind
Robert Peel
Mithridates
Frank Stockton
John Noble
Jacob Wassermann
General Lafayette
Garibaldi
Cassius
Elf Chest
Mares
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