Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said he, "the super deluxe Tudor [most popular Ford, which retailed at about $750 F.O.B.] represented a total manufacturing cost of $512. . . . Material costs were $304, direct labor costs were $76 and overhead amounted to $132. . . . Looking at the November, 1945 cost records [of this model], when production was comparatively low, we find that total manufacturing costs added up to $962 ... or 87% more than...
Wecter: "Vincent Astor, present head of the family and childless, was a phlegmatic youth . . . has become the most progressive of all the Astors-founding model farms and building model tenements for the poor, as well as running de luxe apartments and the St. Regis for the rich...
...marriage to wealthy Texas Widow Ria Langham, also several years his senior, tnded in divorce, 1939; marriage, regarded by fan magazines as a "true love" match, to famed blon.de Cinemactress Carole Lombard, ended by her death in a Nevada air crash, January 1942. Recently Gable has squired ex-Model Anita ("The Face") Colby (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945), blonde Cinemactress Virginia Grey, and moneyed Widow Laura ("Dolly") Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien...
Dubbed the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" by their creator Mrs. Frances G. Lee of Littleton, New Hampshire, they correspond in their purpose to the Pitman forest models which show a New England hillside undergoing contour and seasonal changes. Each setting depicts the scene of the tragedy as it would appear just before the medical examiner or policeman might arrive. Accompanying the model is such information as a detective might have obtained by interrogation up to the time he walked in the door...
...Chapman tells the story of Watts' five spiritual wives and an absurd legal union with an incipient genius, the girl model Ellen Terry, when he was a middleaged, lukewarm gentleman and she an actress with a vocation as irresistible as his own. On the only occasion on which Ellen mentioned it to me, she described how, when she was only Watts' model, she came home one day and informed her mother triumphantly that she was going to have a baby.. Watts had kissed her-and she was young enough to believe that babies were the result...