Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maxwell-Chalmers fire, had agreed to buy Dodge. The price suited Walter Chrysler, right down to the ground: $170,000,000 in new Chrysler stock. Without turning over a penny of cash Chrysler Corp. had taken over all the floor space and forge and foundry facilities it needed to drive from No. 5 in the industry to the No. 2 position it holds today. (No. 1, General Motors: No. 3, Ford...
...motorboat engines with his derby awry and his white shirt rumpling up under his suspenders. Not for more than a year had his quick laugh been heard in any of the 24 Chrysler plants. His friends feared that Board Chairman Walter Chrysler, burned out at 64 by the gruelling drive from the roundhouse to a paneled office, would never mix in motor's hurly-burly again...
Most widespread innovation for 1940 are the Sealed-Beam headlights on 95% of the models (result of cooperation between the industry, lamp & lens manufacturers). Lens, bulb and reflector are sealed into a single unit. The new lamps light the road without blinding. Another big development is the "Hydra-Matic" drive (see Oldsmobile), which dooms the clutch pedal, lets the accelerator control...
Oldsmobile boasts one of 1940's two major mechanical innovations (the other: Sealed Beam headlights) for its three series: "Hydra-Matic Drive" (a fluid flywheel combined with an automatic transmission which eliminates the clutch pedal, leaves nothing for the driver's left foot to do but play with the headlight beam at night). Prices: $765 to $1,075 (Hydra-Matic, $57 extra). Low, racy, graceful, Olds has a new eight-cylinder Ninety and its Sixty & Seventy sixes...
...addendum. Malraux's fictional account of the war ended with the Loyalist victory at Brihuega in March 1937. Bessie's personal story of eight months in the Lincoln Battalion begins in February 1938, six weeks before the battalion was cut to pieces in the Fascist drive to the sea. The author, a gifted short story writer and ex-Guggenheim fellow, took part in that retreat and later in the last desperate offensive across the Ebro River...