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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ten of the world's top architects, including France's Le Corbusier and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, had joined in deciding what the U.N. headquarters, on Manhattan's East Side, should look like. When their tentative plan was first announced (TIME, June 2, 1947), it raised...
Back in 1929, the twelve cars that were running at the finish of Indianapolis' famed 500-mile Memorial Day race were powered by eight-cylinder engines. But the engineering specialists who design racing autos reasoned that with fewer moving parts, fewer things could go wrong with an engine. Last...
Never before had the engines been more expensively simple, the tuning of them more scientific, nor the field more completely dominated by one man. He was taciturn Lou Moore, 44, whose blue cars with red and white trim had come in first and second for two years running. This time...
As the car, driven by chunky Bill Holland, roared the usual two extra laps for insurance, its ruddy-faced owner hotfooted it from the pits to the victory cage, dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief. "I feel wonderful," he said, with the tears still coming. He had narrowly missed...
The engines that go into Moore's cars are the same (Offenhausers made by the Meyer & Drake Engineering Corp.) that are used in most other racing cars. But Master Mechanic Moore does not use them the way they come from the factory. He pulls down each engine to the...