Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Since only a few books on occupations have been written for students at the college level, the Office has been able to collect only a small nucleus of readable volumes, to which new publications are constantly being added...
Chrysler introduced "Airflow" design in 1934, is ballyhooing streamlining again. The four lines, 26 models, are about one-and-a-half inches lower but wider at seat level. Priced from...
...Mason, who headed the fast-stepping Kelvinator Corp. before it merged with Nash in 1937. He has his own ideas about prices. On Jan. 10, 1940 he blew the lid off the complacent electric-refrigerator industry by slashing "stripped" boxes $30 to $40 a unit to a record low level of $119.95. Pleased by results (Kelvinator sales up 125% to new record, industry up 35%), Mason is applying similar tactics to the auto industry this year...
...star notwithstanding, Ronald Colman manages to get in his familiar heroic touch. Whether is Shangri-La or Greenwich Village, he remains always the debonair adventurer with poetry in his words and visions in his eyes. "Lucky Partners" isn't one of his epics, but it does reach a decent level...
...reaching 287 Harvardmen last year, suffered a sharp drop of 19 students this fall. Philosophy likewise incurred a sudden decrease, losing 12 men after hovering around 50 for the three years previous, and the same phenomenon occurred in the field of Classics, which slipped by 10 from its usual level...