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...luggage compartment. With seats eight inches wider than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame in the rear. Price of the '49 Ford: $1,163 and up, f.o.b. Detroit, an average increase...
With the arrival of the steal yoke and copper coil, component parts of the magnet, actual piecing together of cyclotron fragments already here will start. Members of the department of Physics "will engage in experimental Physics and will have cognizance of the plan...
Collective bargaining, for instance, makes great demands on leadership, because it is "formidably complex ... a wound-up coil of dynamic forces, reaching from the individual worker and manager to the broadest-based social developments and back again...
...road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
Some museumgoers wished that Benton had done his drinking before starting to paint. To them, his portrait looked as inert and uninspired as a coil of rope. But the conservative officials of Boston's museum seemed to feel that Benton had captured a vanishing type on canvas. And for once, Tom Benton, who used to complain that an art museum was a graveyard "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait," agreed with the officials. His friend Hough, said Benton, "is a good old New England editor...