Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week lean, suave President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of G. M. C. and Henry Ford declared that there was no war contemplated between them, that they were shooting at different targets. Said Mr. Sloan: "If the past is any indication of the future, the new Ford car will be a car that will appeal to a great mass of people. Naturally, that car must meet present conditions, but the basic idea is likely to be the same. General Motors is in quite a different position. General Motors' idea is to make a car of greater luxury than...
This is because-Ford has ceased firing until he can get his big gun trained on the shifted target of public opinion. It has moved in the direction of racy lines, snappy colors, manual gear shift, speed. It will be 1928 before Ford has tested his product sufficiently well to allow it to re-enter into the conflict...
...Civilians Smith and Bronte fell just short of duplicating the Army airmen's feat (see p. 28). Thus almost every U. S. citizen, reasonably literate, knows that the Hawaiian Islands are some 2,400 miles west of San Francisco and are so situated as to form an excellent target for far-flying aviators...
...Papa" Joffre is still, in the U. S., "The Hero of the Marne"; but in Paris his strategy has long been the target of savage attacks by military critics. Even such a comparative bystander as the omniscient Winston S. Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, has taken the trouble to describe good "Papa" Joffre as 'this bullheaded, broad-shouldered, slow-thinking, phlegmatic, bucolic personage...
...those ships are only big eggshells!" scoffed British Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Field to correspondents. He continued: "They would be a big target, with guns inconveniently placed and with no fire controls, and which any cruiser would quickly put out of business...