Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prophesying. The year just closing had been neither a bad year nor a boom. The sales volume, both in dollars and units (cars), would exceed even record-smashing 1925.* That seeming certainty, after the gloomy predictions of last spring, augured well indeed for 1927. The new record would result chiefly from large gains by a few big companies, but gains made at no expense to the small. After any bad year most of the companies set out to recuperate by developing new lines or by cutting prices. This year Detroit anticipated only a new Hudson-Essex line and new Reos...
Whatever Mr. Ford did, it would have to be and would be something striking. Detroit felt that he was gathering himself for an effort which, with General Motors continuing its progress, might well result in the two producing on a "forty-forty" basis in 1927 or in 1937; leaving only 20% of the country's unit production and less than 50% of the dollar volume (of which Ford and General Motors shared 49% this year) to all other manufacturers combined...
...might easily assume that because of the lack of action which will inevitably result from the publication of this criticism, the Columbia professors are doing no good to anyone in making it public. They are, however, doing one great service. They are showing the people of America that scholars are not necessarily metaphysically minded thinkers. The more often college teachers can show themselves to be interested in practical problems the better it will be for the cause of education, and it need be no foregone conclusion that politics would suffer...
...result of long careful study of Climatic and atmospheric conditions in different parts of the Southern Hemisphere, the Harvard Observatory had decided to transfer its southern station from Arequipa, Peru, to a site in South Africa, probably in or near Bloemfontein. It is expected that observations will begin there within a few months...
...make no more than what it considers a fair profit. 4) Inaugurated a tax on bachelors, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the care of "indigent women and children." Said Il Duce: "Italy is prolific. She must remain prolific! The failure to contract matrimony does not result from the desires of women. The State majestically intervenes to give judicial impulsion to a moral duty...