Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Military headquarters great satisfaction was expressed over the precision with which Pétain's forces have recently gained their objectives. The whole campaign which has been evolving recently in the Kifane sector is now declared to be a model for future French tactics in African warfare, and Pétain is credited by observers with having employed unwieldly modern military equipment to the best possible advantage on a front where all modern methods of transportation by rail or water are nonexistent...
...This model of propriety...
...sugar, cocoa, wood, even ground spices and cornstarch. When mixed with air and an electric spark administered, the dust exploded. Perhaps it was a new clue to the solution of the fuel problem. Chemist W. A. Noel of the Department had hit upon it when the carriage of his model grain elevator was blown to the top of its shaft like a motor piston and wrecked, by the spontaneous combustion of dust accumulated in the shaft. His major problem now is elimination of the unburned residue after each explosion. He believes waste dusts from mills and factories may some...
Another trend in the industry even more striking is the general slashing of prices to gain quantity production. Ford cars have now become so cheap that Henry Ford is beginning to feel the competition. Practically since 1908 Ford kept his famous Model "T" unchanged, and at a cost far below other makers. Since the war, about 48% of cars sold in this country have been Fords. But during the past year, Fords constituted only 42% of cars sold. This accounts for Ford's sudden effort to make his famous vehicle a thing of beauty...
...eight months of 1925, car production has been 6% ahead of 1924, despite the recent significant falling off in the sale of Fords while the model for the latter was being changed. As against 1924 the output of low-priced cars gained 3%, medium-priced cars 26%, and high-priced cars...