Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were lined up smartly for judgment. They were, as they always are, the best automobiles the prima donna of U. S. industries had ever turned out. To help the crowd make up their minds, excited demonstrators, attendants, executives, engineers and mannikins swarmed over & under, in & out of each & every exhibit. Studebaker had golden girls and a golden queen who chanted: "Take a magic key and win a Studebaker-given away every day." On the first day the Studebaker queen was panic-stricken when her royal robes became unhooked in the back. De Soto put on a marionet shew, depicting...
Lancia, from Italy, was the only foreign exhibit. Last week Lancia was testily advertising that it had had independent front wheel action since...
With 25,000 scientific journals in the world in which to exhibit their new discoveries and theories, members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science rarely save breathtaking news for the annual meetings of that body. Nevertheless they find it helpful to assemble for a few days during the winter to take stock of themselves and their ideas. At such meetings the lay Press often gets first wind of things which Science has had on the fire for some time. Last week 3,000 U. S. and Canadian American Association members gathered in Boston for their 93rd meeting...
Streamline. Last year Fierce-Arrow startled the automobile world by exhibit ing a streamlined car, the Silver Arrow, at the automobile show. Only five were specially manufactured. This year the Silver Arrow will be a production job. But Pierce Arrow, a high priced car, has necessarily a high priced, therefore a largely conservative market. This year will see automobile companies making three kinds of cars, the standard traditional type, the semi-streamline, and the streamline which is the gamble of Chrysler & Foy. Chrysler is not taking this gamble with his big volume makes Plymouth and Dodge, for the results...
...flying machine called the Dragon Fly ready to take off from the top of a houseboat in the Potomac River. With a mighty chug-chugging the contraption reared up, flopped into the water. Several years later the Dragon Fly was patched up and flown. The Smithsonian secured it for exhibit, labeled it "... The First Machine Capable of Flight Carrying a Man." Enraged, the Wright Brothers refused to give their first machine to the Smithsonian. In 1928 Orville Wright shipped it to the Science Museum at London...