Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second alteration, amounting to $33,000,000, was the work of Michigan Republicans led by James Campbell McLaughlin. The Ways & Means Committee had recommended reducing from 3% to 1½% the tax on factory sales of Michigan's chief product, automobiles. The Michiganders asked for entire repeal. Farmers'-Friends joined the Michiganders. Democrats swelled this opposition to a 245-to-151 final vote. These changes having been made, Chairman Green of the Ways & Means Committee conferred anxiously with his Republican colleagues at the majority-party floor desk. They asked to have the Revenue Act sent back...
...background that probably any play of human emotions would be dwarfed against it. Brilliant photography of snow storms and ski races, capable if not superlative acting by Leni Riefenstahl, Louis Trenker and Ernst Peterson, make the picture a valuable and exciting experiment in spectacle and a worthy product of the German UFA, noted for its success in experimenting...
...insulting the intelligentsia and amusing the thinking minority. Harrying the agents of George the Fifth from the land and smoking a brace of cigars simultaneously are only a passing indication of the range and color of his demagogical accomplishments. Along with "the World's Greatest Newspaper", another Chicago product. It is unbelievable that much of his yammering is lot of the tongue in the check variety Perhaps he is a great humorist, and there is a suspicion that he possesses certain good natured give-and-take virtues which would have delighted a Harvard audience had he been invite and accepted...
...mustache accentuating his incongruous appearance. His voice is loud, deep, hearty. In a stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly and dissecting the sermon at a heavy mid-day dinner, decorously genial, upright-no breath of scandal has ever touched his life-and painstakingly methodical...
...conceive of a steamboat, a cotton gin, a dynamo or an incandescent lamp and numerous other machines and processes on which so much of life today depends. Nothing in the world is so potent with possibilities as a new idea, and really new ideas are rare and the product of genius. (Not all inventions are of this class. Though I occasionally enjoy Life Saver candies, I do not believe that the invention of the hole in the candy deserved the reputed reward of a million dollars, or that the invention of a blue stripe on kitchen utensils should establish...