Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dealing with the Civil Aeronautics Authority. . . . This morning . . . we saw a group of well-intentioned people staking out an exclusive claim to a so-called 'Lobby to Save Lives.' The implication that we are not interested in saving lives . . . compels me to restate in simple terms the basic features of the Reorganization Plans...
From Chicago to Los Angeles and Fort Worth to Seattle, the new service's rates are the same: a basic 8?-a-mile with a 10-mile-per-hour minimum, a sliding scale for rising mileage with an ultimate 6½?-a-mile for a minimum 1,000 miles a week, gas, oil, maintenance, and insurance included. Cars: five-passenger Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Studebaker and Hudson sedans. Telegrams to reserve cars are free, and arrangements can be made to charge automobile rentals against credit cards...
Ever since 1911, when Henry Ford won the basic Selden patent suit against most of the rest of the automobile industry, he has gone his own way, had no truck with the Automobile Manufacturers' Association, held his own auto shows, stood out in a cooperative industry as an arch-individualist. Exceptions: 1) after Ford Motor Co. bought Lincoln Motor Co., an A. M. A. member, Lincolns continued to take part in A. M. A. shows; 2) Ford suggested and cooperated in the industrywide Used Car Week of 1939; 3) Ford joined in the simultaneous introduction of the Sealed-Beam...
...feels that groups should be more extensively tried out by the tutorial boards of the various departments, and that their possibilities and limitations for the purposes of each department should be more clearly determined. Clearly, however, they are not an adequate substitute for individual instruction, which must remain the basic tutorial method...
...basic fact about aircraft manufacture is that no customer ever gets an up-to-date airplane. By the time the first ships of any order are delivered, a better plane is under test, a still better one is taking shape on the drawing boards. But to foreign purchasers of U. S.-made military planes this principle of initial obsolescence has long been complicated by a Federal regulation that made their buys relatively more out-of-date than a motorcar with a floorboard gearshift is in 1940. The rule: no aircraft type could be sold for export until it had been...