Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approaching automobile war between Henry Ford and General Motors Corp. were symbolized in armaments, Mr. Ford would be a cannon and General Motors a machine gun. When a Ford product strikes the market squarely, as did Model T when first shot into a world of pedestrians, the battle is over. But when the Ford product misses, as Model T has been missing ever since economic prosperity in the U. S. caused the public to shift from mere transportation to touring with style, it misses by a mile. Though Henry Ford has added to his weapon such potent arms...
...ardent persuasion, is coaxed into donning red pajamas during the second act. Everybody knows what that means. The treaty is signed. Yards of gold braid will probably fool the police into letting it go as polite comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back...
...will eventually see the vision too. Its insistence on the importance of the individual, i.e. Walt Whitman, is its contribution to civilization so far, and, being a capable manufacturer, it will some day add Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men, etc., to its already celebrated product, Liberty...
Such were enticing phrases used, last week, by the Tweaker Manufacturing Co. of Chicago to advertise a new product selling...
...Significance of Robinson Jeffers as a poet is, by critical consensus, that of one to rank with the greatest poets of all generations. Homer and Sophocles have not been held too lofty comparisons for him?yet he remains distinctly a product of this continent. Inhuman in his intensity?he says "Humanity is needless"; calls men "the apes that walk like herons"?he repels people who seek comfort in poetry. He takes the race as a starting