Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line with Weaver's findings-though in some cases ''discovered" independently by other manufacturers using more prosaic methods-are such changes on GM's new cars as lower centre of gravity, improved visibility, partial elimination of running boards, gear shift lever on steering post, door locks on both front doors in some models, locks on ventipanes. Most 1939 cars have the headlights submerged in the fenders; GM's still have their lights mounted independently. Other Weaver conclusions about the public...
...modern, high-speed traffic problems. Other changes: Running boards are abandoned completely in some models, optional in others. The rumble has given way to the 4-to-6 seat coupé. General savings in gas consumption and in wear & tear are promised from the overdrive, an automatic super-high gear that engages somewhere between 23 and 35 m. p. h., cutting the motor speed down almost to that of the drive shaft. Not the same as freewheeling, the overdrive provides free-rolling efficiency while still retaining the braking power of the engine; is conceded wider favor than free-wheeling since...
...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...
Jack and Jill, while a modern magazine for modern moppets, will not thrust aside the traditional Teddy-bear atmosphere and playroom gear of the child's World to reveal the razzle-dazzle streamlined machine age of rocketing Buck Rogers. Designed to tweak the curiosity of young readers or listeners will be stories giving a sound if rudimentary picture of the physical world and modern industry. Novel literary features include: vocational stories "appealing to the child's deep interest in the motorman, the fireman, the engineer, etc."; "Paper Tearing," a section "designed to satisfy a child's constant...
Yesterday's practice was one of the most impressive so far this season, and the passing attack which will undoubtedly be the spearhead of tomorrow's offense against the Cadets, was functioning in high gear...