Word: gears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Inglewood, Calif. Cortlandt Hill had a pair of plywood passenger cars which resembled ordinary units of a streamlined duralumin train, but which were mounted on their running gear in a manner which he and several partners claimed was brand-new for railroad cars. Invented by William Van Dorn and Dr. F. C. Lindvall of California Institute of Technology, who have been working on the cars for the past two years in an abandoned Northrup Aviation hangar, the coaches are sprung on a "pendulum" principle by which four heavy vertical coil springs above each...
Fishing will be done with otter trawls. Blake trawls, and, off bottom, with large ring nets. Most of the trawling will probably be done in depths greater than 100 fathoms because in shoal water much gear would be destroyed by coral...
Determined to maintain the Star in high gear, President John Cowles took an apartment in Minneapolis to be close to the job and returned hard-bitten General Manager John Thompson to the publisher's post which he held until 1935. To edit the Star ably, Owners Cowles shifted from their Des Moines Register & Tribune 200-Ib. Managing Editor Basil Leon ("Stuffy") Walters, whose stubby nose scents news leagues away...
Buick comes in four series, all straight-eights, with convertibles available in the first three. Optional at $102.25 extra on the low-priced Special Series 40, not available on higher-priced models, is an automatic gear-shift-a lever at right angles to the driving post just below the steering wheel. One movement is necessary, all others are automatic, eliminating 80% of clutch operation, cutting engine r.p.m. 18% by a new fourth speed. Also new is coil-type rear-springing...
Cadillac has five 1938 lines: Cadillac Sixty, V8, Sixteen, Fleetwood, LaSalle. Only new motor is in the Sixteen, which has 1937's 185 h.p. but less weight and size. Fleetwood claims the world's roomiest body; Sixty has no running boards. All models have gear lever on the steering post, but shifting is not automatic...