Carolina QuotesThe highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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As quoted in American Industry at War : A Report of the War Industries Board (March 1921) by Bernard Baruch
- work
- 1920s and later
- year
- 1921
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