Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the intelligent people involved-hurts, and we haven't got the Negro trade, so you can see how it is." Ford efforts to combat the criticism have been less than successful. The Memphis assembly plant, for example, began pasting its car windows with stickers, reading: "Built in the South by Mid-Southerners." One result: the slogan led to such gutter parodies as: "Built in Africa by Apes...
...next morning the man who built and led the Arab Legion for a quarter of a century was shipped out of the country. His departure was so hasty that clothes and children's dolls were piled Into the plane in an open basket...
...find no crucifixion of the 'teacher,' no deposition from the cross, and no 'broken body of their Master' to be stood guard over until Judgement Day ... It is our conviction that either he has misread the texts or he has built up a chain of conjectures which the materials do not support...
Model T to Diners' Club. That competition has been steadily weakening ever since a Chicago auto salesman named Walter L. Jacobs started his car rental business with twelve model T Fords in 1918. He built the fleet to 565 cars in five years, then sold out to Taxicab Manufacturer John Hertz. Jacobs stayed on in the company, eventually rising to president, and has convinced millions of travelers that it makes sense to rent...
Since World War II the new city that rose from the rubble of blitzed Coventry has epitomized British economic recovery. Coventry's citizens last year made higher wages, owned more autos and TV sets, built more houses than those of any comparable city in Britain. But Coventry's boom is being blitzed by the government's deflation program (TIME, Feb. 27). The auto industry, which employs 60% of the midland city's 172,000 workers, last week was shutting down assembly lines and was cut back to a four-day week, while unsold cars spilled over...