Monthly Average Prices of Cattle at Fort Worth, 1951-1952, With Some Consideration of Factors Involved in the 1952 Price Drop (open access)

Monthly Average Prices of Cattle at Fort Worth, 1951-1952, With Some Consideration of Factors Involved in the 1952 Price Drop

This report consists of a presentation of prices paid for the various classifications and grades of cattle sold in the Fort Worth Livestock Market during 1952; a comparison of 1951-1952 prices showing a sharp decline in the price of all grades and classifications which began in June of 1952; and an examination of some of the major factors contributing to the decline in cattle prices as reflected in the Livestock Market, Fort Worth, Texas. From a study of cattle prices that prevailed in the Fort Worth market during 1951 and 1952, and a consideration of some of the factors contributing thereto, the following conclusions are drawn: First, prices of all grades of cattle soared to unusually high levels during 1951, thereby accentuating the drop in price which occurred in the latter part of 1952. Second, the withholding of cattle from slaughter, during a cattle build-up process, rather than a scarcity of cattle in this country was primarily responsible for extremely high prices in 1951. Third, cattle production in this country has progressed in cycles of eight to ten years duration of each; the period under consideration was on the build-up side of the present cycle which began in 1949; and …
Date: June 1953
Creator: Baker, Henry Grady
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of the Punched Card Registration System at North Texas State College (open access)

Development of the Punched Card Registration System at North Texas State College

This study presents a history of the development and implementation of a punched card registration system in North Texas State College. The study also covers planning stages of registration materials, and a description of the various stages and processes involved in a typical semester from pre-registration preparations through posting the student's grades to the permanent record. To help fill the need for ready reference to methods used in various institutions across the nation, this study will present a history of the development and implementation of a punched card registration system in North Texas State College, with emphasis placed upon those areas of probable major interest to other colleges faced with a similar problem. The study will cover planning stages of registration materials, and will then present a a description of the various stages and processes involved in a typical semester from pre-registration preparations through posting the student's grades to the permanent record.
Date: January 1956
Creator: Harvey, Laurence Edwin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Job Evaluation as Used by Selected Concerns in Dallas, Texas (open access)

Job Evaluation as Used by Selected Concerns in Dallas, Texas

This study intends to discover the extent and use of job evaluation in selected business concerns in Dallas, Texas, and through this discovery to derive conclusions which may indicate current trends in the use of job evaluation in this section of the country.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Wright, Edwin E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Follow-up of Students Having Attended Draughon's Business College, Wichita Falls, Texas, During the Years 1946-1950 (open access)

Follow-up of Students Having Attended Draughon's Business College, Wichita Falls, Texas, During the Years 1946-1950

This study is made in that it may serve as a basis of guidance of the Draughon's Business College. This problem was selected in the hope that it might contribute something worthwhile to the administrators, teachers, placement directors, and students of Draughon's Business College, Wichita Falls, Texas.
Date: June 1951
Creator: Meador, Rowe Morgan
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Minimum Salary Commission of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Church (open access)

A Study of the Minimum Salary Commission of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Church

"This paper is limited to a study of a sample of churches receiving support from the Commission on Minimum Salary of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Church. It is further limited to the phases of membership, budgets, World Service, and minimum salary. The period to be covered is the four years from June, 1949, to June, 1953, during which time the Commission operated under the same principles and officers."-- leaf 1.
Date: January 1955
Creator: Traster, Elden Douglas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organization of the Controller's Division, Dallas Assembly Plant of the Ford Motor Company (open access)

Organization of the Controller's Division, Dallas Assembly Plant of the Ford Motor Company

The purpose of this study was to conduct a case study of the controller function of one of the assembly plants, which is typical in organization and functions of all the assembly plants within the Ford Division. The Controllership of the Dallas Assembly Plant of the Ford Motor Company was studied, and its functions and relationship to management were shown.
Date: August 1955
Creator: McCullough, H. E., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Denton's Shopping Goods Trade Losses to Dallas and Fort Worth (open access)

A Study of Denton's Shopping Goods Trade Losses to Dallas and Fort Worth

"The primary objective of this study was to determine the proportion of shopping goods trade Denton merchants are losing to other cities. A secondary objective was to find reasons for the loss of trade. Since Denton is within the trade orbit of Dallas and Fort Worth, special emphasis was placed on finding the percentage of trade going to these two cities...The major finding of this study is the indication that approximately 81 percent of Denton's retail shopping goods trade is actually done in Denton. "-- leaves 1,58.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Anderson, Roy C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Programs for Developing Store Managers for Retail Shoe Chain Organizations (open access)

A Survey of Programs for Developing Store Managers for Retail Shoe Chain Organizations

The purpose of the study was to determine the practices of a selected number of chain shoe store organizations in training management personnel for their retail shoe outlets. The data secured from these sources will also be compared with the opinions of several authorities in the field of management to determine the extent to which the practices in actual use agree with those recommended.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Slater, W. B., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Accounting Majors at North Texas State College from 1944 to 1950 to Evaluate Their Academic Training for the Vocational Positions Now Held (open access)

A Survey of Accounting Majors at North Texas State College from 1944 to 1950 to Evaluate Their Academic Training for the Vocational Positions Now Held

"This study attempts to review informatively the status of graduates from the School of Business Administration in that period in which students have first been graduates with a major in accounting."--1.
Date: May 1950
Creator: Cunningham, John A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Operation of Centralized Purchasing for the State-Supported Institutions of the State of Texas and Selected States (open access)

The Operation of Centralized Purchasing for the State-Supported Institutions of the State of Texas and Selected States

The investigator made a study of the history, philosophy, method, and operation of centralized purchasing as it now exists for the state-supported institutions in the State of Texas and other selected states (New Hampshire, Montana, Michigan, Nebraska, and Minnesota).
Date: June 1950
Creator: Duckworth, Earl Mead
System: The UNT Digital Library
Union Attitudes Toward Job Evaluation (open access)

Union Attitudes Toward Job Evaluation

Because union attitude toward formal systems of job evaluation can make or break proposed or existing installations, the ferreting out of these attitudes is of utmost importance in achieving mutual understanding which is necessary for a successful program. The purpose of this study was to determine the consensus of unions toward job evaluation and to obtain some indication of just how wide the variation in attitude actually is.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Noe, Robert M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Executive Compensation Practices of Twenty-Five Texas Companies (open access)

Executive Compensation Practices of Twenty-Five Texas Companies

The specific purpose of this study will be: (1) to find what factors determine the amount of pay that executives in twenty-five Texas companies receive, and how personal factors are ranked in setting their salaries; (2) to determine present and proposed utilization of formal job evaluation methods among the twenty-five Texas companies in setting executive salaries; (3) to find which methods of remuneration are used for executives of different levels in the twenty-five Texas companies; (4) to determine who has the final responsibility for the administration of executive salaries in the twenty-five Texas companies; and (5) to determine the means used in appraising executive merit or worth in determining salary adjustments while an individual remains in the same position.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Demetruk, Jack Fredric
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Business Writing Course at North Texas State College (open access)

An Evaluation of the Business Writing Course at North Texas State College

This study is an attempt to evaluate the Business Writing course at North Texas State College and to determine whether the course as it is now presented meets the needs and desires of the students.
Date: August 1950
Creator: Robertson, Mary Coston
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Twenty Selected Manufacturing Businesses in Dallas County, Texas to Determine How Their Salesmen are Selected (open access)

A Survey of Twenty Selected Manufacturing Businesses in Dallas County, Texas to Determine How Their Salesmen are Selected

"The purpose of this study is to compare the existing selection plans for salesmen which are being used in Dallas with the selection plans which are suggested by certain of the accepted authorities in the field of sales management..Twenty-six manufacturing firms were included in the list of firms to be visited personally. Of these twenty-six firms, only six refused to give the specific data requested...Chapter I will introduce the study...Chapter II will deal with the discussion of the tools and techniques which are generally accepted as being more desirable by the authorities in the field. Chapter III discusses the procedure used and the results of the personal survey...Chapter IV will deal with the presentation and evaluation of the selection techniques now being used in Dallas. Chapter V will present the conclusions and recommendations to be made for the improvement and suggestions for eliminating the weaknesses in those selection techniques now being used in the area around Dallas, Texas "-- leaves 2,7
Date: August 1950
Creator: Partain, Robert T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Odessa College, Odessa, Texas, with Business Colleges in the Odessa Area to Determine the Effectiveness of Training Received by Business Students (open access)

A Comparative Study of Odessa College, Odessa, Texas, with Business Colleges in the Odessa Area to Determine the Effectiveness of Training Received by Business Students

The potential college students of the Odessa area need to know which type of school best suits their personal needs. The area around Odessa offers the highest paid secretarial Jobs in the state, with some 500 oil and oil supply firms employing from one to fifty full-time secretaries, with salaries ranging from $200 to 4325 per month. The opportunities for accountants, bookkeepers and auditors in the Odessa area is unlimited, and they earn from 4350 to $450 per month. The Odessa area also employs approximately 30 business teachers. 1 The. high school graduate is often at a loss as to whether to take advantage of a business course in a private business college in Odessa or whether to study business administration for one or two years at the local junior college, either in preparation for a job or for additional education at another college or university. A great deal of time and money may be wasted if a potential student attends the school that does not fulfill his needs. In view of the above, the purpose of this study is to make comparisons between the two types of schools in an effort to determine the type of school most suited …
Date: August 1951
Creator: Woods, John C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Retail Trading Area of Denton, Texas (open access)

A Study of the Retail Trading Area of Denton, Texas

"The purpose of this study is to find what information is available from secondary sources on retail trade areas and to assemble and analyze it so that the information will be of value to those interested in the economy of the area...the following general conclusions are drawn: 1. The Denton retail trade area is primarily agricultual. Indicators of this fact are so many and so definite that there is little doubt but that agriculture and the rural population of the area will affect, to a considerable extent all business activity. 2. In 1947, the Denton retail trade area was not highly industrialized. The trading center is not centrally located within the state of Texas, but several markets are a few miles away. A good supply of labor is available within the area. With the present trend toward decentralization of industry, these facts point toward an expansion of manufacturing in the trade area. 3. In 1948, retailing in the trade center and in the area as a whole indicates a strong retail trade center. 4. The fact that the retail trade center would be a good sampling area for companies introducing new products is indicated by the youth of the population …
Date: June 1951
Creator: Brooks, John M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation into the Characteristics and Causes of Monthly and Yearly Price Fluctuations of Spot Cotton at New York, New York, During the Period, 1911-1953 (open access)

An Investigation into the Characteristics and Causes of Monthly and Yearly Price Fluctuations of Spot Cotton at New York, New York, During the Period, 1911-1953

This study endeavors to give an insight into the causes and characteristics of price fluctuations of spot cotton at New York, N.Y., for the period 1911-1953, and to indicate whenever possible the factors which caused the price of cotton to rise or fall during selected periods.
Date: February 1954
Creator: Reynolds, Harry M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gift-wrapping Methods in Selected Department Stores in the North Texas Area (open access)

Gift-wrapping Methods in Selected Department Stores in the North Texas Area

The study is limited to a survey of the gift-wrapping departments of selected stores in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Denton.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Curry, Betty Jeannette
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Distributive Education Display Manual (open access)

A Distributive Education Display Manual

The problem of this investigation is to prepare a merchandise display manual that can be used by the teacher-coordinator, students of distributive education, other trainees, training sponsors, and salespeople.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Edwards, Robert L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Qualifications of Junior College Business Education Teachers in Texas with the Qualifications Desired by Junior College Presidents (open access)

A Comparison of the Qualifications of Junior College Business Education Teachers in Texas with the Qualifications Desired by Junior College Presidents

The purpose of this investigation was twofold, namely: 1. To determine the personal characteristics and qualifications of the junior college business teachers in Texas; 2. To determine how well these characteristics match the desired qualifications given by college hiring personnel--presidents.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Vail, Harold W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Production Control Systems of Nine Texas Shoe Manufacturers (open access)

Production Control Systems of Nine Texas Shoe Manufacturers

The general production control practices of the shoe industry are basically similar to the production planning of other small businesses in the consumer field. This study will reduce to concrete form the types of production control used by the shoe industry of Texas.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Worley, George Dow
System: The UNT Digital Library
Private Beliefs of America's Financial Analysts--1953 (open access)

Private Beliefs of America's Financial Analysts--1953

This study will furnish the reader with general and specific investment advice as taken from questionnaires sent to a group of men who specialize in giving investment and financial advice -- financial analysts.
Date: March 1954
Creator: Hansel, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Personnel Programs Currently in Use in Selected Texas Banks (open access)

An Analysis of Personnel Programs Currently in Use in Selected Texas Banks

It is the purpose of this study to survey and appraise the personnel programs currently in use in selected Texas banks.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Honea, Arthur A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Sales Growth for 100 Large Corporations (open access)

A Study of the Sales Growth for 100 Large Corporations

The purposes of this study are (1) an attempt to set up a standard of measurement whereby an investor can evaluate favorable or unfavorable sales growth of a particular company over a period of years, and (2) to provide a list of companies which have shown unusual ability to grow.
Date: January 1955
Creator: Vaughn, Donald Earl
System: The UNT Digital Library