Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meat which one of the Lieutenant's men had shot that morning. After dinner a native drum was produced coffee was brewed and the Arabs organized a barbershop quartee and sang like forty eat fights. As for the Europeans, I broke out a bottle of Mr. Hennessey's famous product, of the third magnitude, and we proceeded to wax very friendly. Presently, the Lieutenant felt constrained to sing of the charms peculiar to a certain lady from Armentieres, wherenon I retaliated with a spirited, I say advisedly, rendering of "Sweet Adeline." Then in semiunison we sang "Madelon" and other songs...
...present Mexican Government was described as "a product of new paganism." Finally it was asserted that the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico: 1) has carried on most of the educational, relief and hospital work which has been done in that country; 2) has not drawn undue wealth from the people...
General Motors was clearly on the way to its place in such a mass-production situation. Its Chevrolet car, brightest star in a banner year, issuing from the factories at the rate of one every twelve seconds of the working year,* has sold in numbers 40% greater than last year. Indications were that Chevrolet would be the largest singly advertised product in the U. S. next year...
...mile trail system of the Appalachian Club in the White Mountains, mostly on rough, remote and storm-swept ridges, is substantially the by product of the brain and muscle of a few business and professional men. It is their avocation, their hobby, their dream Comparatively only a handful among the four thousand members of the Club, these few men of two generations, largely with the labor of their own hands, have made it possible to traverse the White Mountains with nearly perfect safety, and with the maximum of pleasure, ease, and comfort Cui bono? "For why?" What is the charm...
Superintendent McAndrew was trained in New York?not a towering recommendation but, considering the resultant product, no insult. Superintendent McAndrew had, as they say in Chicago, "jazzed up" the Chicago school system mightily in his three years there. Specifically, he had made teachers "punch the time-clock"; had ruled against faculty meetings during classroom hours; held annual public accountings for the efficiency of his subordinates (by assembling representative student groups for quizzing by civic leaders); demanded 100% perfection in basic studies; refused to issue his picture to the press; made annual reports of which the good sense bordered upon...