Word: auto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much buying this year. The railroads are already in excellent physical condition, owing to heavy purchases last year. The building industry will use large amounts of steel this year, yet less than it did in 1923. The demand for pipe he also considers bound to lag behind last year. Auto makers will use as much steel the first six months of 1924 as during the first half of 1923, but the last half of this year will see a drastic curtailment to about half...
...rapidly increasing death list in recent years. The building of large vehicular tunnels, which are difficult to ventilate, has multiplied the danger. Only a fortnight ago, in the new Liberty Tunnels, Pittsburgh (TIME, Feb. 4), many persons were overcome on account of the high concentration of CO attendant upon auto congestion in a streetcar strike. Last Summer, Dr. Yandell Henderson, Professor of Applied Physiology at Yale University, suggested as a partial solution that automobile exhausts be extended from the horizontal position at the level of the axle to a vertical one discharging like a chimney at the height of seven...
...testimony for the auto manufacturer's bill was mostly of the "trust Ford" variety. Five leading suggestions have been made for disposing .of the Shoals project. The chief features of the proposals...
...movement of automobiles and auto trucks shows the most astounding increase of all, jumping from 14,000 tons in 1920 to 1,271,000 tons...
...Bureau of Mines, in an extended series of air tests in the new twin Liberty vehicular tunnels to the South Hills of Pittsburgh, have perfected a ventilating system which makes the tunnels safe for human beings with any volume of traffic. A procession of 200 auto trucks was run through the tunnels several times, and samples of air taken in the early tests showed 4½ to 10 parts of carbon monoxide present. Canaries, which are very sensitive to the gas, were released in the tunnels, and on the third test showed no ill effects...