Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idealistic, intransigent Barbara, a saver of souls, is her hardheaded munitions-making father, Andrew Undershaft, a destroyer of bodies. But the savers of souls, Barbara learns, are kept in funds by the destroyers of bodies. She further learns that her Merchant-of-Death father is an absolutely model boss, who regards poverty as the greatest of crimes and to thousands has proved a Bringer of Life...
...William Henry (The Purple Land) Hudson called the presidential chair a "throne of human skulls." But in modern Uruguay, Latin America's most solicitous welfare state, the office of President no longer exists; its power has been diffused in a nine-man federal council on the Swiss model. Public-school children wear an egalitarian uniform of white smock and blue Windsor tie. The state pensions citizens off at 60. Even the rich get a break: Uruguay, an anomaly among welfare states, manages to get along without a personal income...
...than 100% of capacity, they have more orders on their books than they can handle. Detroit's automakers alone will need enough steel to build an estimated 6,500,000 new cars in 1957, are already cranking up to top production speed. After a two-month lull for model changeover, the auto industry is working overtime to build 38 new cars each minute, plans to work overtime and Saturdays throughout November and December to keep pace with optimistic forecasts of fourth-quarter business...
...year) and Hudson's (output down 67%), American Motors trimmed $236 to $331 off Nash prices, $329 to $378 off Hudson's. On the six-cylinder Ramblers, where demand had held up, American followed the industry pattern, raised prices an average 5.35%, or $80 to $117 per model...
...Germany, it has seldom occurred to novelists that life in uniform is a laughing matter. But in 1954 a Prussian-born veteran of the Wehrmacht named Hans Hellmut Kirst wrote a book called Null-Acht-Fiinfzehn-the model number (0-8-15) of the Wehrmacht service pistol-which in Germany is a term roughly equivalent to G.I. The book snickered behind the officers' ramrod backs, put in a plea for the dignity of the individual in uniform, and demonstrated hilariously how a canny conscript like Gunner Asch could win at the old army game simply by hiding behind regulations...