Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the National Association of Manufacturers met for its 43rd annual congress with the biggest attendance ever, come to Manhattan to ogle Guest Speaker Anthony Eden (see p. 9) and mull the keynote of "Making America Click...
...first 37 years N. A. M. helped America click chiefly by being a clearinghouse of industrial information, a super trade-association. But under Roosevelt N. A. M. has become more and more the Voice of Industry, first pro-New Deal, then so bitterly anti that N. A. M. sound-offs sounded like Republican campaign speeches. Two years ago under the guidance of Chairman Colby Chester of General Foods Corp., N. A. M. developed a new attitude, something which might be termed "reasonable liberalism," approving certain New Deal reforms, asking for modest changes, waving the olive branch rather than the hatchet...
With the slate thus wiped clean, with the new cars full of genuine mechanical improvements and priced below 1938 (though still above 1937), and with the public snapping up the advance models and ordering more, Detroit was sure its 1939 fashions would click...
...they should win at Princeton; even Mikkola is pretty confident--"if they'll all just click," he says. Yale and Princeton are good, for the Elis have been winning consistently, and the Tigers, while losing to the strong Army and Navy teams, are a potentially powerful group. But Harvard is different. On paper, from last year's records, the Crimson should be weak. Their undefeated record shows how Jaako has built that team...
...others had quit. But the 13 survivors were excited about their novel course, their crack teachers. Said Student Bowen Weisheit: "These fellows teach differently from any teachers I ever had. I don't know how it is, but there's something they do that just makes it click...