Sanford E. Thompson series 3. Publications, 1925-1946, bulk 1925-1940.

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Sanford E. Thompson series 3. Publications, 1925-1946, bulk 1925-1940.

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Consist of notes and manuscripts for books, articles, speeches, and reports written by Thompson. Include notes, rough drafts, and correspondence regarding the production and publication of REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGES (John Wiley, 1939), written in collaboration with Edward Smulski. Also, articles and supporting documents pertaining to various issues in economics, marketing, management, and work measurement. The subjects include scientific management, productivity, wages, unemployment, profit, cost accounting, production, purchasing, management and marketing in the apparel, construction, textile, and rubber industries, engineered marketing, technological change, defense production (1941), and post-war cost reduction (1944). Additionally, a speech on the Salvation Army (1939), a speech, with program, from a "Symposium on Frederick W. Taylor" (Boston, 1933); and charts, notes, and drafts on chapters for an unpublished book on marketing (ca. 1946).

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Cornell University Library

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