Word: modell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delta Phi at Yale. He married the daughter of Ing Watch Company's president, fought for the United States a year in France, then earnestly fought for Y. M. C. A. and goal government in his native cinnati. Father of six children, Charles Taft will serve as a model for the figure of genuine Americanism. He believes in democracy and a Republican liberalism that will provide social security and do it without the spoils system of Jim Farley...
...bright afternoon he bundled his good friend, Under Secretary of Agriculture & Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell, into an open automobile, whisked him out of Washington and out of the shadowy silence in which he had been discreetly kept during the campaign. Their goal was Greenbelt, $10,000,000 model suburb which Dr. Tugwell is building on 8,000 rolling Maryland acres five miles north of the District of Columbia. For the handsomest braintruster, this display of Presidential favor came at a critical moment. Congress last session had refused to appropriate funds for his Resettlement Administration, forcing him to confine...
...mechanic (Randolph Scott) has an invention. Says Mavis: "I'd just love to see your model." The examination takes place in a barn. When it is over, Mavis Arden decides that she will take the young inventor back to Hollywood. Her plan is frustrated by Pressagent Stevens. By dangling tiny garments in front of her, he convinces her that the young man's fiancée is pregnant, causing Mavis to snort: "Fine goings on around here!" By the time she learns that the young man's relations with his fiancée are not premature...
...discharges). For manufacturers this lower rate of labor turnover makes for more efficient operation, fewer accidents. Although the dealer now has to carry more cars on his floor during the winter, he, too, has benefited because his selling season is longer. The one snag is used cars. A new model may excite a prospect into an early purchase but second-hand cars are still bought in the spring...
This complete dependence on timing is one reason for the motormen's bitter opposition to union labor. They are too vulnerable to be comfortable. In the autumn of 1933 a tool & die makers' strike tied up most of the industry, many a model at the 1934 show being practically handmade. The strike in the Chevrolet transmission plant in Toledo two years ago temporarily crippled the entire Chevrolet organization. Since that experience General Motors has done what Henry Ford did previously-made sure of at least two sources of supply. The haunting fear of possible famine had something...