Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course will be a little over two miles long starting from in front of the Newell Boat House and running to the Metropolitan race track, crossing over to the boulevard and back to the boat house...
Keynote of every automobile show is burgeoning optimism. Last year optimism seemed logical-except for 1929, 1937 was the industry's best year. But behind its optimistic front, the automotive industry knew as well as anyone else that the economic highway was being strewn with tacks. Warily, the industry proceeded with 1938 production, but not warily enough. By spring, when Depression II was in full slump, even low-gear production had turned out many more units than the dealers could move...
...Chevrolet led the pack, hotly pressed by Ford, with Plymouth third. But stable for stable, the Ford, Lincoln-Zephyr combination ran third, the Chrysler line (Plymouth, De Soto, Dodge and Chrysler) second and General Motors (Chevrolet, Pontiac. Buick, Oldsmobile. LaSalle and Cadillac) far out in front. For 1939, Henry Ford has two major bids for a return to the day when flivvers led the field: 1) a new car, the Mercury, to tap the middle-price field; 2) installation, at last, of hydraulic brakes in all models. Only other newcomer in the field is an oldtimer, the Overland, which reappears...
Hudson, dropping the Terraplane model, introduces a new 118 six for $898. The 112 six costs $806; the Country Club series, sixes and eights are $995 and $1,079 respectively. Low-slung, with low-set triptych grille-work up front, Hudson has a standard mechanical steering-post gearshift, an optional automatic gearshift control and automatic clutch...
Mercury, the Fords' newcomer, has 116-in. wheelbase, a crested, prow-cut hood front, with low, horizontal grille work, bird's-eye headlights in the fender fronts, a V8, 95-h. p. motor. Price: $934 Gadget: pinpoint pilot light for the ignition keyhole...