This article was downloaded by: [University of Glasgow]On: 20 December 2014, At: 01:09Publisher: RoutledgeInforma Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House,37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK

The Journal of Business EducationPublication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information:http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/vjeb19

Do you know that?Moe Walker aa Fort Wayne Commercial College , USAPublished online: 30 Jul 2010.

To cite this article: Moe Walker (1965) Do you know that?, The Journal of Business Education, 40:5, 212-212, DOI:10.1080/08832323.1965.10118582

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08832323.1965.10118582

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE

Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) containedin the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make norepresentations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of theContent. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, andare not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon andshould be independently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable forany losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoeveror howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use ofthe Content.

This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematicreproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in anyform to anyone is expressly forbidden. Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/page/terms-and-conditions

“ ... . . . . . . - , : ,,

NEW CARD PUNCH

COURSE Computers feed on card punch data

-accurate data! To keep them properly nourished, highly skilled card punch operators are needed in ever-increasing numbers.

LEARNING 400 now meets this need with a new and challenging Business Education Program - the EDL CARD PUNCH TRAINING COURSE.

The EDL CARD PUNCH TRAINING COURSE places special emphasis on the development of smooth, rapid, and accurate trainee responses.. . utilizing the. variable speed, left-to-right visual acing techni ues of the EDL Skill

guilder to deveqop trainee concentration in a highly motivating atmosphere.

The EDL CARD PUNCH TRAINING COURSE is designed for training of operators with limited experience, as well as to improve the performance of the more experienced ones.

The EDL CARD PUNCH TRAINING COURSE [esults in high-efficiency. card punch skills . . , develops maximum evels of ACCURACY and SPEED.

SEND THIS LEARNING 400 COUPON

LEARNING 400, INC. 75 Prospect Street Huntington, New York Send me complete information on the EDL CARD PUNCH COURSE. I would like to know more about LEARNING 400‘s Business Education Programs.

Name .................................................... School .................................................. My Position .......................................... Address ................................................

o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

City .............................. State .............. JBE

212

Conducted by Mae Walker Fort Wayne Commercial College

About 3 million Americans will patronize the country’s some 900 commercial ski slopes, which are in 40 states north to Alaska, west to Hawaii, and south to Tennessee, Even before they reach the slopes, they will spend $140 million equip ping themselves, according to C h g i n g Times. Naturally, this does not include money spent on travel, bed, board, lift fees, etc., which will swell the total to nearly a billion.

sc The idea of compensating crime victims

is almost as old as mankind. In ancient Babylon, the Code of Hammurabi decreed in 2050 B. C.: “If the brigand be not cap- tured, the man who has been robbed shall, in the presence of God, make an itemized statement of his loss, and tha city and the governor shall compensate him,” according to a Pw& report.

ic Frozen vegetables, canned soup, and

instant coffee rank first, second and third, respectively in research to determine what consumers regard as the most typical con- venience foods. This research was prelimi- nary to other studies of convenience food usage, made by Drexel Institute of Tech- iology’s College of Home Economics. *

Children learn faster in brightly colored :lassrooms ; hospitals use soothing blue for high blood pressure patients, and dimulating red for low; reds make your food lmk better, according to Spilhaus.

r/ Sears, Roebuck and Company has de-

veloped a new type of bee, called the ‘Midnight Bee,” which will not sting un- ess unduly provoked, and will provide h o s t 95 per cent of the honey of the ‘mean” models, according to Haskin iervice.

r /

The average family spends 1,977 hours t year watching TV, or an average of 5 iours and 25 minutes a day, up from 4 iours and 46 minutes ten years ago, ac- :ording to C h f i g L t g T i w s .

H The ten most common surnames on the

Social Security rolls, in order are: Smith, lohnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Miller, Davis, Martin, Anderson, Wilson. The en most common given names for ,hese ten are for boys-John, William, lames, Robert, Charles, George, Willie, Joseph, Frank, Richard; for girls: Mary, D,orothy, Helen, Margaret, Betty, Eliza- beth, Anna, Mildred, Frances according to US. News 6. World Report.

rc Americans in 1965 will lay out over four

billion dollars for traveler’s checks. Their

sale has doubled in the past decade, ac- cording to C h g h g Times.

ilr Americans spend $350 million a year on

across-the-counter purchases of vitamins, reports the Dairy Co&l Digest. This does not include the cost of vitamins in- corporated into foods.

fl Mechanical toys made by Hero of

Alexandria over 2,000 years ago actually operated, using water and hot air. Hero also built the first model steam engine, according to “Our New Age.”

s/ Ten nations have a lower infant mor-

tality rate than the United States-we lose about 105,OOO babies aged one year or less every year. Netherlands ranks first in low infant mortality with a rate o€ 15.3 deaths per 1,000 live births, reports Dr. Virginia Apgar, Director, Division of Congenital Malformations, The National Foundation -March of Dimes. Next from 2 through 10 order are Sweden, Norway, Finland, Australia, Denmarlk, New Zealand, Switz- erland, United Kingdom, and Ireland. United States, l l th , has a rate of 25.3 per 1,OOO live births.

sr A three-dollar model guitnr i n a large

mail-order house catalog in the 1890’s was an important factor in tlie mass popularity of the guitar, according to Haskin Service. Sales before 1900 were approximately 10,OOO a year. Today, guitars range from $20 to $1,200. Approximately 750,000 guitars, 45,000 banjos, 7,000 mandolins and 100,OOO ukuleles were sold in 1964.

ic One person out of every ten walks to

work in the United States. J

The average taxpayer must work 117 days each year just to meet Federal, state, and local taxes, accordiiig to the Internal Revenue Service.

sc The were 398 millionaires among the

61.4 million Americans who filed individual tax returns for 1%1.

v A partial list of the unusual things people

have used as money includes shells, brass rings, iron rods, spears and axes, stone axes, clay tablets, coils of copper wire, ivory, salt, agate, heads, boar tusks, teeth of several animals, wampum, tobacco, pigs, pearls, coral, jade, jasper, elephant tails, feathers, furs.

c, Church property damages in 3,500 fire5

during 1%3 totaled $19 million according to the National Fire Protection Associa- tion at Boston. This compares with a loss of $16,500,000 in 2 , W church fires during 1962.

THE JOURNAL OF BUSINESS EDUCATION

Dow

nloa

ded

by [

Uni

vers

ity o

f G

lasg

ow]

at 0

1:09

20

Dec

embe

r 20

14