Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Electric Co.'s President Charles E. Wilson also moved fast. He trimmed an estimated $40 million a year, at present volume, off the retail prices of his products, and put out a new 10-in.-screen table model television set at $239 (compared with $325 for G.E.'s cheapest old model in the same size). Willys-Overland's President James D. Mooney found that he, too, could trim prices. He cut $25 to $270 off his Jeeps, trucks and Jeepsters...
Amherst reaction to the article has been mixed. Fun-loving students of the progressive college are pleased to see that their pleasant life has been selected as a model for briefing cadets on the vagaries of the outside world. But local fraternities, who have found that visiting cadets adapt to Amherst's casual college life with incredible rapidity, are even now wondering if the article may touch off a march of joy-bent gray legions through the quiet Massachusetts hills...
Perle Mesta is shaped to the mold of a Rubens model who has reached the age of a Helen Hokinson character. Her figure requires stern corseting; she carries a diet book in her purse, consults it before ordering. Except for her parties, she hates to spend money. Once she walked two blocks to Democratic headquarters because her hotel charged 12? for a phone call. People are always trying to wheedle money out of her; she does her own ordering for big affairs, and drives a good housewifely bargain. Says Perle, thrusting out her chin: "I'm stingy. That...
...police shoved Calhoun into a back room, stripped him to the buff, and searched him. Then, as he vainly shouted for the U.S. consul, they hauled him off to Caracas' Model Jail. In his cell, Calhoun repeated his demands to see the consul. When he got no action, he kicked out the cell window, went on a hunger strike...
Dodge will bring out a sporty roadster; with manually folding top and solid plastic side curtains, a model most auto companies have not made for twelve years. But the price has not been announced. The first ones would come off the line about April, in time for the fine spring weather...