Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion," he told a Senate committee last April, "that the large rigid airship can serve very effectively. . . . Further blue-print and theoretical studies are useless unless we build and experiment-learn by trial and error, as has every other...
Elsewhere in the No. 1 U. S. industry, Ford depends almost entirely on its dealers' reports on consumer tastes. Chrysler's Head Statistician John Scoville spends most of his time studying registration tabulations, dealer suggestions and sales records, checks his findings with occasional direct surveys of buyer opinion. General Motors alone carries on constant customer research in the full sense of the word...
This week both the simple and elaborate methods of rival motormakers in gauging public opinion take their annual road-test at the 1939 Automobile Show in Manhattan. The 200 glittering, four-wheeled debutantes now arrayed in Grand Central Palace and soon to appear in 30 other shows throughout the U. S. have many a new selling-point, gadget, mechanical feature (see p. 77). The numerous changes in this year's cars are striking evidence of the motor industry's urge to give the public exactly what it wants. In the creation of some of the new car features...
...spite of the fact that, in his opinion, Landis, support of Plan E sharpened the conflict between the two, he sees the solution as coming from more and not less of this sort of action: "The problem of the University is not to disassociate itself and its members from society in order to avoid attack, but rather to play a larger and more direct role in mass social life with wisdom, courage, temperance, humility, and understanding." He says this might be the test of whether culture can operate successfully in society as a whole...
...explained, however, that since district Attorney Warren A. Bishop was defeated last Tuesday in his fight for reelection largely on the ground that he "nolle prossed" too many cases, the State may be forced by the pressure of public opinion to prosecute unless such intervention is forthcoming...