Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris rural postman from the excessively mountainous Department of Drôme succeeded last week in interesting M. Paul Painlevé, thrice Premier of France and now Minister of War, in a model of a unique new type of airplane...
...Herr Professor Doktor Guertler, former Minister of Finance, loyal citizen of Graz, roundly scored and cursed President Hainisch as a "jackass." While local patriots cheered him to the echo, he recited a noted expurgated verse from Goethe's "Knight with Mailed Fist," which is usually regarded as a model of obscene revilement...
...admire. So many, many moving picture actresses, even in these days of good direction, curb their dramatic potentialities by refusing ever to look ugly. We could name half a dozen who continually appear, with the aid of trick photography, as something between an archangel and an artist's model. But, in the long run, tooth enamel, and spot-lights below one's double chin, will never take the place of a desire...
...that car makers were becoming decidedly overenthusiastic and liable to find themselves with huge unsalable inventories in 1926. Actually, however, motor producers have been watching demand very carefully. Also, the record figure for October was largely due to the tremendous but temporary production of the new Ford model. The old Ford model was discontinued in August, while delays in producing the new model held down the Sep- tember Ford output and created a large accumulation of unfilled Ford orders. Thus, while Ford made only about 85,000 cars in September and August together, in October 204,827 Fords were turned...
...November the Ford plants continued active on the balance of their unfilled orders, but many other concerns reduced their production schedules. When Ford has "caught up" with the orders for his new model, a considerable falling off in Ford and in other car-production is expected, as a regular seasonal feature of the business...