Word: producted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some famed cabaret, with a blurb for the show tattooed upon his naked poll. Last week a bouillon company evolved a sleight even more alarming. An army of ragged sandwich men was sent into the streets, armed with bundles of red feathers upon which the name of the product was printed in black. Each feather had a hook. The sandwich men hooked them to the backs of passersby...
...steel mills now make cement out of their "slag," which was formerly thrown away as waste. Gases arising from coal-burning, instead of being allowed to escape, are now distilled in by-product coke ovens, and yield petrol, benzol and other derivative products employed in explosives, dyes...
...been customary to consider Henry Ford as indifferent to beauty, and interested only in the more practical aspects of affairs. For many years the aesthetic qualities of his product have been jeered at by the multitude. Mr. Ford reprinted the jeers as an effective and cheap form of advertising. Now, however, a change has apparently come over the Detroiter. His leisure he spends in reviving old-fashioned dances and music. The rising aesthetic impulse has finally led him to revamp the new model of his cars with the idea of making them more seemly to the eye. Last week...
...most radical mechanical change" is "the widening of the transmission brake band by ⅝ of an inch." The engine remains unchanged. The chassis has been markedly lowered, as in Le Ford Francais - the company's French product...
...Obsolete." That is the great word of forward-thinking scientists, scientific entrepreneurs, manufacturers of popular scientific inventions. "Obsolete." A new, bigger, better, cheaper product is at hand...