Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briand, looking older, slightly more rotund and as disreputable as ever he did, descended from his Pullman car and was met with effusive greetings from his British confrere. These urbanities over, the two statesmen posed for the ubiquitous cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French. "Non," he had nothing to say for publication. The two custodians of their respective countries' foreign policies exchanged smiles and followed them up with an exchange of hearty farewells. M. Briand sped away to the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge. Mr. Chamberlain betook him to his residence in Morpeth Mansions...
...Hongkong, a Chinese passenger jumped off a street car, leaving behind him a shrieking bomb, especially designed to put an end to the existence of a strikebreaking driver. He fled. So did the passengers. The bomb exploded. The car blew up. One passenger was injured...
...Rome, Premier Mussolini heard of his daughter's bravery, exclaimed affectionately "La mia carina" (my little darling) and jumped into his racing car which he himself piloted to Cattolica...
...motor competition is entering still another phase, with drastic price cuts by Buick and Studebaker. Makers are now divided into two classes: those who manufacture their car parts, and those who assemble parts purchased from other concerns. Naturally, production costs of the first group are regularly under those of the second- a fact which is now beginning to spell disaster for assembling companies. Recent Studebaker advertising directed public attention to just this situation. Apparently the process of the big fish eating the little fish is to be resumed with increased force...
There is also another side to price-cutting, apart from this threatened abolition of assembling concerns. Long ago, Ford and Packard discovered that even though cars were sold below cost of production at first, sales were increased rapidly, quantity production economies became possible and presently they were making more money on cheaper cars than before with higher prices. Motor manufacturers cannot stand still. Their motto is and must be: "Quantity production or bust!" The corollary to this process is the elimination of the unfit, and cheaper and cheaper prices to the car buyer...