Word: units
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what Ford profits might have been if Model T could have been kept going. There was also an indicated loss of some $42,000,000 in 1927. Automobile production figures for the first quarter of 1929 (TIME, April 15) show that the Ford has regained its position as greatest unit producer, some 180,000 March Fords comparing with some 140,000 March Chevrolets...
...uses oil under 5,000-lb. pressure and takes in its air on the cylinder down-strokes. No time is needed to get up steam, as in the locomotor (15 min.) or the usual locomotive (30 min.). Operating cost is, by report, one-fifth that of ordinary Diesels. The unit is 10% to 15% lighter, and powerful enough to draw a train. Danish railroads are testing it. Three new Danish ocean liners may adopt...
...been both breathless and bewildering. In 1921. it was a Morgan-weaned youngster with the Cuban and Porto Rican telephone systems in its pocket. In 1924, it branched suddenly and surprisingly into Spain, began modernizing a hopelessly antiquated telephone system. Four years later it had added a vast manufacturing unit (International Standard Electric Corp.); two cable companies (All-American Cables, Inc., Commercial Cable Co.); a telegraph company (Postal Telegraph and Cable Corp.); a radio company (Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co.). It had invaded five states (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay) of Latin America. Last week, unnoticed in the merger excitement...
...Belgian Independence is the famed Regiment des Guides, and old as the Regiment des Guides is the Royal Belgian Band which was organized to make its music. During the War the Band, too, served as a fighting unit, won high distinction for bravery...
...traditional "bad man," asked the conventional question of where he buries his dead, may soon reply, "At Tompkinsville, Staten Island, in the 6,000 mausoleums of Mausoleum Corp. of America." On the site is room for 4,000 additional crypts. Mausoleum Corp. stock is being marketed at $106 a unit (4 Class A, 1 Class B share), is held chiefly by organizers...