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Management Development in Food Store Chains in the North Texas Area (open access)

Management Development in Food Store Chains in the North Texas Area

This paper seeks to examine the practices of food store chain organizations in the North Texas area regarding the development of store management personnel.
Date: June 1955
Creator: Hall, Louie Wendell
System: The UNT Digital Library
PERT as a Management Tool (open access)

PERT as a Management Tool

The purpose of this study is to examine the three scheduling systems available today as a management tool. The first two systems--Milestone Reporting and Line-of-Balance--are essentially Gantt charts which do not appear to meet the requirements for management control of scheduling. An investigation of PERT is made to see if it will provide additional controls necessary for proper scheduling.
Date: June 1962
Creator: Ross, William Minor
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seasonal Market Trends for Feeder and Stocker and for Slaughter Steers for the Years 1940 through 1948 (open access)

Seasonal Market Trends for Feeder and Stocker and for Slaughter Steers for the Years 1940 through 1948

Standing on the threshold of a new decade, Texas agriculture is faced with three major problems. The first of these problems is the imperative need for a sound soil and water conservation program. Texas has been struggling with this problem for fifty years and has made some progress toward its solution. During the war, however, it was an all-out production of food regardless of cost, either in terms of dollars or resources. As a result, the conservation problem is more acute today than ever before. The second problem is that farm production is out of balance. Lucrative prices for oil and grain crops, plus the increasing shortage of farm labor, turned thousands of farmers from the more stable diversified farm program which had been built up during the '30s. Now, they are again faced with quotas and acreage allotments. This calls for necessarily early and probably extensive readjustment of the entire agricultural production program. The third major change in the agricultural picture is the rapid industrialization of Texas during and since the war. This increase in urban population in this state means an increased market right at the farmer's door for more livestock, dairy, poultry, fruit, and vegetable production. Fortunately, …
Date: June 1950
Creator: Embry, J.C.
System: The UNT Digital Library