Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant. In 1921 he left Mr. Ford, in 1922 turned up at Chevrolet, became Chevrolet's president two years later. So well did he apply his Ford training to Chevrolet production that in 1927 more than a million Chevrolets were turned out and Mr. Ford had to scrap Model T. Since October 1933 Mr. Knudsen has been General Motors executive vice president, in charge of all automotive production and acting as contact man between General Motors in Michigan and General Motors in Manhattan. He says that he does not like men to ask him for a raise because...
...ships at the rate of 10.800 tons per hour. Between the coal fields and deep water its route is the shortest, its grades the easiest And its operating ratio, prime index of railroad efficiency, is the lowest of any major U. S. carrier (last year: 46%). Chesapeake & Ohio, another model road with enormous coal tonnage, is proud of a ratio between outgo and intake on operations...
...assembled the town's population to hear good news. The George H. Gilbert Manufacturing Co. (worsted fabrics) was ordering 100 new looms, would reopen its largest mill about Jan. 1, expected soon to be employing 800 hands. The population cheered, paraded around the village common. Gilbertville, once a model industrial town, has been depressed since its mills closed four years ago. ¶ At Winchendon, Mass. some 500 men & women worked in two 8-hour shifts to supply a record-making toy demand. Leading items: hobbyhorses and miniature baby grand pianos. ¶ Allegheny Steel reported a 1935 (ten months) increase...
There are also reviews of Harvard University Press book: Model Law For Planting Cities, Counties and States and Budding Lines and Reservations for Future Streets by Zachariah Chafee Jr., professor...
...activities which are conducted in the settlement houses are extremely varied. They range from tumbling and wrestling through the manufacture of model airplanes to debating and dramatics. The Committee believes that it is obviously better to direct the energies of the city's less fortunate children into these comparatively healthy channels rather than to allow them, with their undeveloped sense of values, to seek their recreation without any guidance...