Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change from Chrysler Corp. to Chrysler Motors struck much deeper into the automobile world than a mere matter of names. A new competitive set-up began to appear. In 1928, as everyone remembers, the centre-ring automobile battle was Ford v. General Motors. The issue: Could Ford's Model "A" check the growing threat of Chevrolet and General Motors, or would Ford have to accept second place? In 1929, it seemed last week, the issue is enormously complicated by the injection of Chrysler Motors. Can Chrysler challenge General Motors...
...those days, 35 years ago, a machinist had to know not only how to use his tools but how to make them, if necessary. Mechanical engineering became young Walt Chrysler's life, not his profession. After a year he was able to make the model steam engine which he still shows to his friends. When he was earning 7½? per hour he wanted a shotgun; so he made that...
Practically every 1929 model motor car has been completely redesigned or considerably improved in its body design. (Fisher made most of the bodies; Briggs...
...difficult thing for a motor manufacturer to fix. Labor costs so-much, material so-much. Not in all cases is it possible to economize by making one's own parts. It often is cheaper to buy from a large-scale parts factory. In a list of 93 models, for example, 13 used Lycoming motors, 14 Continentals. Ford, famed for controlling all manufacturing steps from raw material to finished cars, last week had contracted to buy batteries, tires, bodies, shock absorbers from outside companies.* All manufacturers seem to give good value in 1929 cars. The table on p. 43 shows...
...There a wealthy, ridiculous patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal, but the whole gamut of her staccato experience, pertly recorded, actually affects...