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Thus did potent Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. show that its new "Lifeguard Tube" had beaten the No. 1 bugaboo of U. S. motorists-the danger of loss of control following a blowout at high speed. The new tube is really a double tube, one inside the other. The inside tube or "lung," made of two-ply fabric, floats free under normal riding conditions, has a single small vent through which air escapes slowly when a blowout bursts the outer tube. Thus, it converts the blow-out into a slow leak, allows the driver to continue a mile or more with...
Raymond-Marie Cardinal Rouleau, Archbishop of Quebec, was dangerously bruised and cut when a blowout crashed his motor into a ditch near Levis, Quebec. Last rites had been administered, but prayers continued to go up from many a church in the Cardinal's province. The Cardinal convalesced...
...this all. "People are too busy in these days to make love . . . to write billets-doux." And the automobile is of course to blame. The loss of these dainty confections of literature is truly tragic. Yet the squinting scholar may smile amidst the grime of a blowout to thank his otherwise cursed machine for preventing the literary effusions of future Pamelas...