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Instead, Bill Ford insisted on having a career at the family shop, Ford Motor Co., which is far more complicated than you would think. Any number of times since the 1920s, the carmaker's professional managers have had to take the keys away from actual Fords before they did irreparable harm to the business. Ford, 44, became chairman in 1999 only after parrying the objection of his predecessor Alex Trotman, who didn't care to see another Ford in the driver's seat--particularly this one. "I was a heretic," Ford admits. "There were a lot of people saying...
...From the wooden boxes of the 1920s to the hulking contraptions of today, Japan's basic vending business has long been the same: someone had a yen (and some coins) and someone else had to drive around and restock those hungry machines with bottles, underwear or dried squid. Now, the paradigm-busting idea is that a growing number of vending machines are beginning to dispense digital data, altering the economics of a business once largely dependent upon a complex system of resale and deliveries. As vending machines lumber into the information age, future purchases will just as likely come...
...Travers spent most of her youth in Cannes during the 1920s when women took to masculine coifs, slinky dresses and cigarettes to help them shake off "the shackles of the previous century." Swept up in fast-paced Riviera life, Travers gleefully partook in a whirlwind of booze, globetrotting and recreational sex, scandalizing her parents who accused her of becoming une fille facile...
...Given that the Harlem Renaissance coincided with the Jazz Age, the Internet is an ideal medium to deliver representative film clips and music tracks of the 1920s and 1930s to provide a truly interactive and engaging experience," Gates said...
...credible explanation, or criticism, of the pattern of rising grades at Harvard must take into account at least the basic realities. The increase in grades did not start in the late 1960s; the graph shows that it was already happening in the 1920s. Indeed, grade inflation was a worry even the 19th century: a special 1894 “Committee on Raising the Standard” rued that “in the present practice Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily,—Grade A for work of not very high merit, and Grade...