Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retired from the Ford Motor Co., later cashing in their investment at a colossal profit, and set up for them- selves as the Dodge Brothers Automobile Co. In the higher-price car field, they at once encountered keen competition. Yet their experience, engineering skill and ability in marketing their product soon led to a second success even surpassing their part in the first...
...easily. He exhibits a venerable insitution as background for a gently satirical study in motives. Professors, if musty, are mellow. Undergraduates, if callow, are traditionally precocious. College evils; however undesireable are not tragic. anbridge conventions if stifling, are sincere. The story itself, slightly artificial but cleverly told, is a product of older Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion for an absent professor's young wife. No Brahmin ban, but his mother...
...will ask your subscriber to analyze our advertisement and see that it offers an absolute free trial of ten days, we paying the transportation charges. Would it not seem impossible that a business concern could live and grow for over 20 years, doing business on this basis, if this product were not really of immense benefit to the hard of hearing people...
When Henry Ford examined Lawrence Sperry's Messenger Plane at the Detroit Aviation races of 1922, he pronounced it possible to build such small planes in production more cheaply than his own well-known product. Ever since, frequent rumors have credited the great manufacturer as planning the construction of an army of "flivver"' airplanes to make flying as popular as automobiling. But the Fords are wiser than to imagine that this is immediately possible. They are, indeed, in aviation, but not building airplanes, nor trying to popularize them...
...heart swells with pride and he walks down Massachusetts avenue just as if he actually were a great man. But greatness will probably never be a possibility with him. He has fixed his attention on the present without preparing himself for the future. He has become a conventional product of the extra-curriculum activity...