Ruth Ayres-Givens papers, 1915-1986.

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Ruth Ayres-Givens papers, 1915-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/698109695

This collection of consumer economist Ruth Ayres-Givens includes extensive and detailed information on international oil prices (1930s), milk and consumer goods (1940s), materials related to her textile courses (1950s-1970s), and personal and family materials.

31 cubic feet.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Ayres-Givens, Ruth

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Ruth Ayres-Givens attended Radcliffe College, earning an A.B. (1925) and an A.M. (1927). She then attended the Robert Brookings Graduate School of Government and Economics, focusing her research on the interrelationship between government and economic forces. She earned a Ph.D. (1929) and, that same year, married Meredith B. Givens. Ayres-Givens became the first woman Code Advisor in the Consumer Division of the National Recovery Administration, worked for the Office of Price Administration, and...