Department of Purchase in-service training course held at the College of the City of New York
Contributors: College of the City of New York (1926-1961)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1941
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Purchasing; Purchasing departments; Government purchasing; Boilers; Boiler-makers; Pencils; Soap; Soap factories
Other titles: In-service training course; Elements of purchasing.
Description: Volume includes transcripts of ten lectures by different speakers. Some transcripts include questions-and-answers after the lecture. Following lecture no. 10 are papers submitted as part of the course, and selected by the Bureau of Training of the Municipal Civil Service Commission as being most representative of the papers submitted. During the course, enrolled members of the Dept. of Purchasing visited a plant manufacturing boilers, lead pencils or soap. The authors visited John Trageser Steam Copper Works (Maspeth section of the Borough of Queens), Eagle Pencil Co. (East 13th St., New York City), and the ABC Soap Company (New York City).
Notes: "Fourth course in the Dept of Purchase. This series of lectures will be on "The Elements of Purchasing"--P. [1].

Lectures took place from January 6th-March 24, 1941.

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Table of contents: title: Opening remarks / N. William Fadden; title: Introduction to the course / Edward J. Brodrick; title: No. 1. Some problems in municipal purchasing / Albert Pleydell; title: No. 2. Specifications / Abraham Slavin; title: No. 3 Examination of bids / Edward J. Brodrick; title: No. 4. The vendor and the Department of Purchase / Albert Pleydell; title: No. 5. The inspection process / William R. Bradley; title: No. 6. Relations between the storekeeper & the buyer / Philip A. McNiff; title: No. 7. Relations between the operating department & the buyer / William H. Latham; title: No. 8. The value & use of trade papers to the buyer / Dr. Heinz Luedicke; title: No. 9. Relations between the operating department & the buyer / Albert H. Morgan; title: No. 10. The purchasing unit / George J. Basso; title: [Appendix]: Foreward / Donald E. Marcus; title: Boilers / Max Leventhal; title: The lead pencil / Henry A. Osterlitz; title: Soap / Harold J. Rosen.