Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot accept the idea that young men and women of college age should be singled out from all other citizens of the country to sign special affidavits and take oaths of allegiance, in order to benefit by the provisions of the Act. The lack of confidence this shows in young people of our country as well as in education generally is an insult. Finally, of course, the provisions of the disclaimer section of the Act will not be any way effective in discovering who is disloyal to our country. For these reasons Antoich ... has elected not to participate at present...
...action last night, the Council merely endorsed the general idea of such a committee. Further details were left to be worked out by an exploratory group led by President Edward L. Croman...
...This Is It." Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Corvair is the way Cole designed it and sold the idea to General Motors. He put the Corvair wheels in motion way back in 1952, a most unlikely time. Detroit then was riding a crest of chrome, and it looked as if anyone who bucked the trend to bigness would get honked right out of the industry. Henry Kaiser's chromeless little Henry J. was a flop. Romney's Ramblers were losing money. Just a few years before, Chevy had started to tool for a compact model...
...present him with a prototype car and an argument virtually without flaw-at a carefully selected time when the market was just beginning to ripen. Cole well knew that Curtice could ask him hundreds of questions-and if he did not have all the answers, Curtice would veto the idea right there...
...designed a tank powered by an air-cooled, horizontally opposed engine (the same kind as in the Corvair). When the Korean war broke out, the Army grabbed the plan for its T-41 tank, and Cole was made boss of Cadillac's huge plant in Cleveland. There his idea of building a rear-engine small car took shape. Every night in his room at the Lake Shore Hotel, he bent over a drafting board, littered the floor with sketches. The idea seemed to have no chance, since big Cadillac had no plans to produce a small car. But bigger...