Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slight, bushy-haired Congressman Rankin, has a reputation as a liberal, largely because of his ardent support of TVA, and his spleen seemed to be caused by labor trouble in Tupelo, Miss., the model TVA consumer town. There, declared Mr. Rankin, the way NLRB men had "helped destroy" the cotton mill and "the brutal manner in which they are now trying to destroy the garment factories" was "enough to stir the people of my State to revolt...
Summoning his Legislature for a special session to meet immediately after the regular session closed, Governor Murphy asked for a modified version of his model labor law. The House acquiesced but the Senate not only refused to pass the new bill but re-passed the old one, the Governor's support having been weakened by the fact that one Democratic Senator was unavoidably detained in jail. Defection of other Democrats led to heavy fisticuffing on the floor, after which the Senate abruptly adjourned, leaving the House still sitting. Over the weekend one lone Senator carried on as a sort...
...called "Steerometer and Reactometer," a gadget on which visitors could test their fitness to drive a car. Unexplained last week was a heavily draped pool table. A bust of John D. Rockefeller Sr. stared at a bust of Mahatma Gandhi by Jo Davidson. On tables were perspective models of Boulder Dam and an artificially moonlit Triborough Bridge, with space reserved for a coming model of the New York Exposition of 1939. After this visitors are ready for the Wine Fountain spouting real wine but not the vintages of the famed French chateaux which adorn it in symbolic model form...
When ingenious Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews was finally thrown out of the Hupp management (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935), he left the company's affairs at a lower ebb than they had ever been since young Robert Hupp sat up all one cold night to assemble his first show model in 1908. From $52,500,000 in 1929, Hupp sales had dropped to $6,118,000 in 1933 and recovered only to $6,868,000 in 1935. Depressed by Hupp's million-dollar losses and by Archie Andrews' merchandising schemes, parts supply companies were refusing to extend credit...
During Hupp's long night its engineering staff stayed on at the closed plant, hopefully working out a new model for production if and when. During the last two months about 450 workers, many of them old Hupp men, have been hired to get the plant ready for full production. This week the new Hupmobile comes off the assembly line in two models, a six, selling for under $1,000 and an eight, listed at around $1,200. President Bradey, whose vacationing this summer has been limited to Sundays with his family in their Ontario cottage, figures that...