Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marked a milestone for the automobile industry. The U. S. has about 20,000,000 motor vehicles operating. Half of them are old Fords, the Model T, which the Ford Motor Co. ceased making six months ago. It has made 15,000,000 of them since 1908. It continues to make parts for Model T, a business worth $10,000,000 yearly to the company...
There exist about 8,500 Ford dealers. Their profit on each Ford they sell is 20%. (Dealers in other cars get 24% profit.) For six months Ford dealers have been clearing their show rooms of Model T Fords and parts. A fortnight ago all were bare. Last week most continued bare, for the Ford Motor Co. had prepared only about 550 new cars for exhibition. However its production will approximate 1,000 cars a week by January. (The company operates only five days a week.) The aim is 8,000 cars a week. Dealers will deliver very few cars...
...overture. Out in the shadow house a moneyed populace whispers expectantly, and straining, catches through a rift in the curtain delicious glimpses of promised wonders. And not a tear, even hypocritical, falls for the old fellow, battered but unbowed, led away to an obscure almshouse. It is the model Y of fragrant memories, a picaresque place that in the noisy exuberance of gallant youth growing nation. But it is said that Harvard and America are decadent now. One rides in Chryslers...
...York. Ardent playgoers well remember a last season drama named Chicago. Not so memorable is New York. In it a lonely shop girl goes grievously wrong. The manner of her going brought back to some more ancient listeners the flowery days of Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,-days when a properly seething villain chewed up at least one set of scenery every evening...
After 20 years, Mary Byrne, teacher at the model school of the New York Training School for Teachers, began to fear the incessancy of this schoolteacher's routine. She would quite often feel a wave of hatred for her pupils, followed by a sentimental shame which made her look at them with a foolish smile. This amused the children. They could scarcely help writing smutty words on the blackboard or making noises to scare Miss Byrne. The other teachers began to notice that she seemed a little gruff when they met her on the stairs. Once she rated...