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...state that the Rickenbacker automobile was the only one equipped with four-wheel brakes (during its period of production). This is incorrect. The 1921 straight-eight Duesenberg was equipped with "simultaneously acting four-wheel brakes, controlled by a single pedal." Note also that these were hydraulic, not mechanical, brakes...
...money -he wanted to build the "great American car." With three Detroit automobile men, he formed the Rickenbacker Motor Co. His dream child, the six-cylinder Rickenbacker automobile, was unveiled in New York in 1922. After four years, the Rickenbacker flopped. It was too advanced, and the automobile industry "beat my head in"-in part with advertisements warning the public that four-wheel brakes (with which no automobile but the Rickenbacker was equipped) were dangerous...
...have freedom. Plenty of nations today have sovereignty without freedom. Our people know that the old-style colony is a dead thing. But they also know that there's no sense turning colonies into little nations; that would be like rebuilding two-wheel carriages into four-wheel carriages-in this world of airplanes...
Having smashed 24 bones and lost a leg on the race track, Bronco Bill Schindler at 39 has learned to temper daring with discretion. Now president of the American Racing Drivers Club, which controls about 375 chauffeurs, he is a leading advocate of stricter racing rules, better machines, four-wheel brakes...
...common knowledge that the Volstead Act, several depressions, and the invention of four-wheel brakes have become part of history since a Harvard-Yale Game settled a major championship or demonstrated the best in football. Almost unendingly one hears that these late November meetings are self-sufficient entities--complete whole football seasons synthesized into three hour, red and blue capsules, to be swallowed only in the Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium. What more can be said? The 75,000 spectators, the sounds and colors, the brandy and Chanel-scented air--all the riotous and mellow components of the Weekend...