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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles on a gallon of gasoline; a roustabout car that "turns on a dime," stops with a swish of its four-wheel brakes. Out in the yards 885 of these machines waited to be driven away to dealer showrooms in the farthest reaches of the country. Mr. Willys was content. He was the first manufacturer to offer a U. S. equivalent to the diminutive European touring-traffic-and-economy cars like the Bean in England, the Citroen and Baby Peugeot in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Cars | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...should be flattered, but on the other hand we are spending thousands of dollars in advertising the fact that "There is Only One Duco?DU PONT Duco" in order to protect the buying public against substitution. It does not seem, therefore, as though anyone responsible for the editorial content of a publication such as TIME, should permit this misuse of a manufacturer's private brand name. W. A. HART...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...when he proclaims to the world his willingness to rest the salvation of his soul upon the ethics of big business. And seldom has there been a more revealing confession of faith than this naive acknowledgement that whatever is right, and that the President of the United States is content to accept as his own faith and the faith of the American people the spiritual implications of modern industrialism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MESSIAH OF MELLONISM | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...local observers noted that here for the first time was a possibility of China being pacified by division-if only Marshal Sun would content himself with five vast provinces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Passive, Trampled | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...discussion. Last winter the undergraduates presented the trustees with resolutions to that effect (TIME, Oct. 19). Last week the resolutions, agreed on by undergraduate and faculty committees, were adopted for effect next autumn. Of the colleges where compulsory chapel has lately been a live issue, Smith alone now remains content to keep the institution (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Vassar | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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