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A conventional clutch is a cushioned disk (connected to the transmission gears), which takes power from the engine when it is forced against a disk on the face of the engine's spinning flywheel. In fluid drive the flywheel is equipped not with a disk, but with a sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Fluid Drive | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

¶ With Boeing's 307, DC-4 is the first commercial transport plane with a pressurized cabin. Its passenger compartment will be kept at low-altitude air pressure for passengers' comfort while the plane flies high, above bad weather. Overweather flight has been one of commercial aviation'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

¶ Like a kangaroo's pouch, DC-4's large belly compartment will enable the plane to carry 6,500 pounds of freight. This is a delight to the airlines, for a 200-lb. transcontinental passenger brings them no more revenue than 200 pounds of air express, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Mr. Ford's arrival in Washington last week was ruggedly simple. His wife, with whom he recently celebrated his golden wedding anniversary, was using his private car, Glen Ridge, in Massachusetts, and at 8:40 a. m. the Guest of the Day stepped from a Pullman compartment into Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Like a Dream | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

¶ In Warm Springs, the President went swimming in the glass-enclosed pool, drove over the red-clay Georgia roads in a brand-new Ford touring car (license: FDR). In Gainesville, he took his first ride in one of the new cars which he will henceforth use when exhibiting himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Georgia Pique | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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