Word: gadget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rival motormakers in gauging public opinion take their annual road-test at the 1939 Automobile Show in Manhattan. The 200 glittering, four-wheeled debutantes now arrayed in Grand Central Palace and soon to appear in 30 other shows throughout the U. S. have many a new selling-point, gadget, mechanical feature (see p. 77). The numerous changes in this year's cars are striking evidence of the motor industry's urge to give the public exactly what it wants. In the creation of some of the new car features customer research played a large role; others...
...through bigger windshield area; sliding sunshine panels in sedan tops; "catwalk-cooling" grilles low-set on the catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...
Frosty, white-haired President Francis Edward Frothingham of the Investment Bankers Association of America has a watch which, besides telling the time, boasts a chime, a barometer and a gadget that registers how the moon will be each night. Last week as I. B. A. gathered for its annual convention at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the moon was only a thin sliver - an appropriate symbol for the investment banking business. Keynoted retiring President Frothingham: "Broadly speaking, there has for some time been no flow of new capital, the capital that employs men. From an average...
...When an airplane climbs so steeply that its wings lose lifting power, it stalls, falls. Last week Langley Field engineers introduced a gadget that senses the loss of lift, blows a horn to warn the pilot...
...sidings have remained sidings. Soon after he went on the air with WLW he went into it with biplanes which he called Moonbeams. Now he no longer makes planes but owns three airfields, always travels by private plane. He produces washing machines, ironers, ranges, bottle coolers, and a strange gadget called the Xervac, designed to stimulate hair growth by alternate vacuum and pressure. These big and little lines are all gathered under an $8,800,000 corporation, Crosley Radio Corp., which last year lost $376,915 (partly because of damage by fire and flood), but which had average net profits...