Word: clutches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prices: $2,385 up. Hudson worked two years on the new riveted body for its eights. All the exterior hardware has been revised. In the motor, show points are: bigger bore, labyrinthine cooling for the oil, a vibration dampener, bigger water pump. Gear-shifting is aided by a duralumin clutch-plate. Price...
...aluminum, weighs only about 25 lb. per h. p. This car was personally developed by Col. Howard Marmon, vice president of the company. He has worked at it since 1926, when straight-eights were gaining popularity. Also offered are two new straight-eights called "88," and "70." A clutch brake makes gear shifting easy. Prices: the 16 below $5,000; the "88," around $2,000; the ''70'' around...
...must give them a broader base upon the soil!" Winding up his speech with a twit at the higher tariff schemes with which so many British statesmen are now toying, both in England and overseas (see Canada), stanch free-trader Lloyd George concluded wittily: "A drowning man should not clutch at straws-or at sharks! No doubt many capitalists would make larger profits out of the new system of tariffs, but we have got to think of the 45,000,000 people who have got to live. Therefore, look out for sharks! I could name...
...first of many impending innovations in automotive design appeared last week. For its new "free wheeling" principle Studebaker claimed much: 12% saving on gas, 20% saving on oil, clutch not needed except in starting and backing, smoother riding, no "piling up" of the motor...
...oystermen of Bivalve roundly cursed the fact that they have had little rain, that the brackish water needed for oysters was a little too salty, and hence inviting to starfish. No enemy so annoys the oyster as the starfish which, unintelligent in many matters, is smart enough to clutch the bivalve in a deathly grip and tug until Ostrea Virginica in a moment of exhausted abandon opens his shell and allows himself to glide into the starfish's protuberant stomach. Oystermen have learned to clear the water of starfish by using a long mop, but other foes lurk beneath...