Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjects. Before and since Edward became King, he has made every effort to find a basis for peace in Europe. He has been balked by a group which contains some of the very men who failed to prevent the World War. They want the King to be a model of clothes and morals, while they continue to muddle the foreign affairs. Let people choose their own clothes and look after their own morals. After all those are private matters...
Delivered in Manhattan this week the Baby Austin, which is called by its makers the "Nippy Sports" model (see cut p. 33), sells for $745 with a special "super-engine" of 21 h. p., or for $695 with the standard Baby Austin engine which develops 17 h. p. (rated for tax purposes at 7.8 h. p.). In cheapest standard roadster form, the Austin is offered in Manhattan for $495, with 40 mi. per gal. promised. Efforts to manufacture Austins in the U. S. miserably failed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935), because they obviously cannot be sold to the U. S. masses...
...Phantom III, in which he was shortly to do 93 m.p.h., Lord Cottenham continued, "I shrugged myself more comfortably into position behind the wheel and cast about little searching glances under the scuttle, as one does when familiarizing oneself with the instrument layout and control locations of a new model. . . . I saw the red telltale bulb glow on the ignition switchboard. . . . The big engine had hesitated- 'hunted' we call it-for a second or two, whether because my cuff had caught the throttle lever and sharply shut it or whether, as Colonel Harker afterwards said, because...
...Industry's 400,000-odd workers, employment in the first eight months of the model-year 1936 fluctuated within a 7% range. This covered a period when automobile production fluctuated more than 100%, from a low of 217,000 cars in February to a high of 460,000 in April...
...discover the type of home desired by the average U. S. citizen, Niagara Hudson Power Corp. lately questionnaired 250,000 customers in upState New York. From plans based on a composite of 11,000 replies, the big utility will build model homes as a promotional push. Last week ARCHITECTURAL FORUM which prepared and interpreted the survey, published its findings...