Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automotive industry to pull itself together and build likewise. Standardized U. S. cars he found "so alike . . . that a price war has started which eventually must ruin the industry if economic history is right. . . . What is needed at this stage is not so much intellectualism that can design the car, or intelligence that can run the firm, but somebody who is 'smart' enough to make this next move...
...what U. S. motoring is like, was this prediction by President Stout: "More attention is going to be paid to crash-padding of the interior. . . . Crashes are going to be a part of automobile ownership and the time has come when they must be taken into consideration in design." Very soon every U. S. car, President Stout hopes, will not only be well padded inside but all projections against which passengers may be flung and gashed if they crash, will be smoothed and rounded, "doing away with all sharp corners, exposed windshield wipers...
Cadillacs and La Salles will continue substantially unchanged. But La Salle with its wedge-shaped submarine hood and flaring fenders profoundly affected the design of the 1935 Automobile...
...Only Japanese shipbuilders have thus far produced a torpedo boat which turned turtle due to faulty design, with a loss of no lives (TIME, March...
With the difficult music both were perfectly at ease. The Mozart was graceful and fleet, though Yehudi's tone was sometimes sleazy. The Schumann was richly romantic, the Beethoven flawless in shading and design. The teamwork throughout was beyond approach. Applause was all that bewildered Hephzibah who went on & off stage clinging tightly to Yehudi's hand. He could not make her bow. But if Father and Mother Menuhin have their way Hephzibah will never require a platform manner. Though they have been besieged with offers from all over the U. S., last week's Manhattan appearance...