Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford, among his other projects, plans to sell a total of 20,000,000 cars on the installment plan. To supply the demand which he himself will create, he will establish assembling plants in rural towns so that farmers may throw together a Ford in their spare time during the winter. As a presidential candidate, he would profit immensely by a mailing list of twenty million--even if all of them were debtors; but two things appear to block this ambitious scheme: the saturation point, and Citizen Citroen...
...Episcopal convention of the diocese of Boston last week passed a resolution demanding the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations-not as an expediency of partisan politics, but as a Christian duty to establish world peace. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington political correspondents, declares that church sentiment is making the League, once " dead," an issue which Mr. Harding and other candidates cannot afford to neglect...
...well-known product. " Nothing about Ford or his plant suggests a trace of the finer aesthetic qualities," he stated. " One can make cheap, rapid cars, but they do not have to be ugly." Proposing to give the inexpensive car beauty and form, M. Citroen has announced that he will establish an American plant, designed for mass production, but embodying artistic ideas. The plant will be located near New York, either in New Jersey or on Long Island, and is to be backed by American capital. M. Citroen takes back with him to France a large amount of American labor-saving...
Premier Stambuliski instituted a novel means of combatting Communism. He introduced in Parliament a motion to force all districts with more than ten Communist electors to establish work settlements with equal distribution according to Communist doctrines. Toward this end all property belonging to Communists will be expropriated by the State...
...announced the willingness of his country to cooperate' with the U. S. Department of Commerce in attracting American capital into the Brazilian rubber industry. Such proposed essays in business provide frequent topics of conversation beside the Potomac. It should be realized, however, that it takes many years to establish rubber plantations, and that in the light of the recent overproduction prospects for such a venture over the next decade are not promising. The great " rubber boom " in London in 1910 was followed by a spectacular list of failures. It would be a more sensible course for large American consumers...