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Associated Press teletypesetter wire service usage by Missouri afternoon dailies
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"The purpose of the study which will be described in the following pages is to analyze the content of the Missouri state teletypesetter wire, and to see what use is made of it by the sixteen afternoon dailies it serves."--Page2
An investigation of farm or dairy buttermaking : dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
is now being made in all dairy sections and is due largely to the advance of agricultural science and the dissemination of knowledge through colleges, agricultural newspapers, bulletins and circulars. The present demand for butter as a food...
An empirical study of advertised retail meat prices in a metropolitan area
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
. Weekly data for the advertised meat prices from different firms were obtained for a total of thirteen (1960-72) years by consulting the appropriate newspaper files in the Missouri Historical Society Library. The primary objectives of this study were...
A method of sociological investigation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
"It is the purpose of the author of this thesis to present, from his limited experience as a social surveyor and from a rather extended study of social surveys, the meaning and value of the survey method to the science of ...
A voice for justice : the Tuscaloosa News views the Autherine Lucy incident
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"This study, 'A voice for Justice--The Tuscaloosa News Views the Autherine Lucy Incident,' surveys the news and editorial presentation of the Alabama journal which found itself in the midst of a segregation issue during a ...
A managerial-economics analysis of selected Midwestern Class I motor common carriers of refrigerated commodities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1966)
were general comedities carriers who operated at least twelve refrigerated trailers. Company executives were interviewed in 1964. Financial and operating data for I960 and 1963 were obtained from secondary sources. A comparative analysis of specialized...
Development of manual arts instruction in cities of the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
of life down to the present bifurcation into the distinct fields of (1) general manual arts courses in the common schools and (2) special vocational courses in trade and vocational schools under public control."...
Municipal government in St. Joseph, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
this city has grown from a mere frontier trading post to a city of about 113,000 inhabitants, passing through the stages of incorporated town and city with a special charter, and coming finally under the general law governing cities of the second class...
Minimum milk requirement for calf raising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
The dairyman is keenly interested in knowing how he can raise his calves in an economical and successful manner. This thesis reports the results of several experiments in early weaning and minimum use of milk for calf ...
Effective cooperation between rural school patrons and the schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
that there are three great factors in the solution of this problem - the county superintendent, the teacher, and the patrons. Each factor has its own special function to perform - each of them is of equal importance, yet none of them can succeed in solving the problem...
An analysis of livestock marketing patterns in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1960)
"Missouri is fortunate in its strategic location near the heart of the grain belt east of the Great plains cattle producing areas and on the western fringe of concentrated centers of population. A combination of favorable ...
The middlewestern wool manufacture 1860-1914
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1966)
Dimensions of nursing home care: perspectives of patients, family members, and care providers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1991)
nursing homes. Two dimensions, a home/hospital dimension, and a generalized/specialized knowledge dimension defined the spatial configuration of terms and attributes....
Early roads in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1936)
"The objectives of this study are to present a brief survey of some of the outstanding Indian trails of the State, an abbreviated account of the development of the important traces of the French and Spanish regimes, and a ...
Investor capital, taxes and the structure of cattle feeding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
,000 head size have increased in numbers at a rapid rate in recent years. However, multi-lot cattle feeding firms have lots of widely varying sizes and in widely scattered locations. This pattern suggests considerations beyond production economies of size...
A plan for the reorganization of rural school administration in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from the Introduction: An increasing nrunber of students of social conditions are coming to regard the country school as one of the most pressing problems of our national life. In building, equipment, curriculum, ...
Job turnover among displaced agricultural workers within the Mississippi Delta area of Eastern Arkansas : extent, costs, and criteria of cause
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
to enhance or abate the effect of job turnover. This study was undertaken to investigate labor turnover in a selected area of eastern Arkansas. The area was chosen because of the large number of displaced agricultural workers who were in the employ of small...
Church Federation in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
1. A Divided Church. The 1906 Census Report on Religious Bodies gives the number of Protestant denominations in the United States as 164. We are so accustomed to this divided condition of Christendom, having no experience of any other condition...
Rural southern residents and the incentive to work
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
"There has been much interest in the past few years in welfare reform. This interest is a result of the rising criticisms of the many relief measures which comprise the welfare, or public assistance, program. Two of these ...