Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard" the public alse over so gently implied. And Mr. Ford replies with better lines, quiet, more power, more speed, in a still veiled Juggernaut of a motor millenium that can butcher pedestrians to make a Sudbury holiday, and buy the antiques of a more restful past. A Detroit Isis is born again with renewed vigor in the American pageant. They used to laugh at the car that now is dead. "But there is no death. There is only laughter," said Mr. O'Neil's Lazarus...
...heard your chairman say that the press men's lot has improved in recent years. That is a new experience to me. A Prime Minister's work is much harder than it used to be. Telephones and motor cars have added most distractingly to the daily labors of a Prime Minister. I wish none of them had ever been invented...
...occasion to say also: "Everything indicates that 1928 will witness the greatest prosperity our country has ever enjoyed. There is little, if any, inflation anywhere, an abundance of credit, great farm purchasing power as a result of good crops and prices, and my prediction is that with the Ford Motor Co. in production the automobile industry will produce 5,000,000 units in 1928, as against 3,500,000 this year, and this gain of about 40% will add tremendous impetus to an otherwise prosperous condition...
...experts in economics to work. They made five broad investgations: 1) consumers-how they use their credit for buying clothes, furniture and jewelry; 2) merchandise-how pianos and books are sold; 3) repossession-how used motor cars are handled; 4) depression-how consumers' debts affected a financial depression in the Pennsylvania coal fields; 5) dealers-how they sell new and used cars and how they do their banking...
...those communities that are urging, through paid magazine advertisements, industries to locate within their corporate limits, Atlanta, Ga., last week was the most jubilant. The Chevrolet Motor Co. had decided to construct a $2,500,000 branch assembly plant in Atlanta;* and Chevrolet President William S. Knudsen had addressed an eminently quotable phrase to the Atlanta Industrial Bureau: "A plant in your city became not only a possibility, but a necessity...