Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sleek and slender as its sponsor, the new Ford Six was motored out of the Detroit factory last week as Henry Ford & Edsel watched. The elder man smiled contentedly as it was placed beside the fifteenth million model T flivver. Its maximum speed is 60 miles per hour. And it was the first product of the Detroit plant since...
...Five O'Clock Girl. A large-sized musical comedy descended upon Manhattan, its cap feathered with Mary Eaton & Oscar Shaw. Norman Bel Geddes scenery and a tune ("Thinking of You") were, many thought, even abler ingredients. The plot, that old dodderer of musical comedies, explained how a modiste's model married a millionaire. The jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant...
...Horse, in Halethorpe, Md., have come school children, railroad presidents, Henry Ford and many miscellaneous spectators, to the number of 1,000,000, since it was opened three weeks ago. On the fairgrounds they have strolled past exhibitions of trunks, tickets, timetables, tableware from Pullmans, telephones, tiny model locomotives, travel-folders, telegraph instruments, types of primitive wooden rails, all of curious and obscure design. Also, they have noted the present day offshoots of all of these. On sidings, huge stallion locomotives from far-away railroads have backed and champed; preposterously outmoded engines, like Shetland ponies, have pawed and whinnied. There...
...Ford car, at least 375,000 orders have already been placed. Of these, 125,000 are accompanied by cash deposits. Hence the new plant, retooled, remodeled, is assured several months' capacity production. Two-thirds of the new factory will turn out the new model Ford, one-third will continue to manufacture parts for the old model...
...exhibit of this varied material, together with model airplanes, will be arranged at the Business School in December...