Word: newfangledness
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For such reasons new jobs were thrown Charlie Wilson's way. G.E. expanded into the appliance business. Soon the engineering, production and salesmanship of ironers, washers, heaters, radios and every newfangled gadget was in the hands of Charlie Wilson. The Wilson home became a showplace of Bridgeport: it even...
Spry, dry Henry Ford is again shaking up his fabulous empire. After 16 years of trying newfangled ideas, the sum of the evidence is that the Ford Motor Co. is going back to first principles.
Quietly eased out of the company were three top Ford men who have long espoused the newfangled ideas which old-fashioned Henry Ford has never completely accepted. The three: stocky, balding Laurence Spence Sheldrick, who came to Ford 20 years ago and has long worked as chief engineer; lean, sandy...
Project One. Henry Ford, man of one main idea, has always believed that automobiles are merely means of transportation. They should be mass-produced cheaply, without eye-catching gewgaws, and sold cheaply. He has little regard for the public's fickle taste and fashions. Once he said: "Give them...
Greatest of these is unquestionably Ocarinist Bernie Ladd, who manufactures his own carefully tuned instruments and plays solos with Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Like most serious musicians, Ocarinist Ladd is a stanch traditionalist and prefers mud to plastic. He regards the U.S. Army's new unbreakable ocarinas as...