Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Blease waved him down with: "I'll not go into that. I have this book and another. They're in the libraries of this city for children to read. Yet Washington is a clean model city . . . the New Jerusalem, if we listened to the Grand Jury...
...establish a full school of Aeronautics with help of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Therefore it considered itself having a preemption on academic Aeronautics. Last August N. Y. U. roused itself when Northwestern University at Chicago set up an Air Law Institute on the model of the Koenigsberg Institut für Luftrecht, established in 1924 as the world pioneer. N. Y. U. promised itself a similar institute for next autumn. University of Southern California's similar decision seemed a murmur from across the continent...
Homes, tractors and typewriters are sold in the belief that they will not soon change owners. Automobile salesmen, however, have the fervent hope that after a year or so the buyer will return for a newer, shinier, faster and perhaps more expensive model of the same make. Charles Franklin Kettering, President of General Motors Research Corp., lately wrote: ". . . Our chief job in research is to keep the customer reasonably dissatisfied with what...
Cadillac. Bidding strongly for logo's luxury trade was a new model by Cadillac. Autophiles who once gloated over Packard's mighty "Twin Six" gathered around the enclosure which contained the new Cadillac engine, regally mounted. Composed of two blocks of eight cylinders (each with carburetor) set at an angle of 45° instead of the usual 90° for a V-type, the engine will develop from 165 to 185 h. p., send the V16 gliding along with electric smoothness. Ready in April, the V16 will sell from...
Just as eagerly awaited as the new Ford models were details of the Ford program for 1930. Cynics who had said that his wage-raise (TIME, Dec. 2) was meaningless because of the number of men laid off were less sure when they learned that the payroll, reduced during retooling for the new model, was increased at the rate of 600 to 700 men a day as soon as production began again. Then last week the Ford Co. announced that its 1930 expenditures will exceed $30,000,000 making it obvious that the Ford product during this year will...