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...hang so far over the front-wheels they appear dangerously near nosing-over. Another giant, Mormon-Harrington, specializes in lumber, petroleum and construction hauling. The revitalized Reo runs from one-and-a-half-ton general-purpose trucks to 34-ton tractor-trailer combinations. Well streamlined, Reo pushed a knifelike hood ahead of the front wheels to achieve bigger loads on the same wheelbase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOMOBILES: New Trucks | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Packard values its traditional rectangular radiator, has kept it on the new cars but smoothed corners elsewhere. Sleekness is achieved by eliminating hood louvers. Available in the five series is true air conditioning with cooling unit and humidifier in the trunk. Two-tone color combinations are outside and inside. Prices: $907 to $5,550 (for LeBaron limousine). Besides making cars, Packard is busy building a new plant to make 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines for U. S. and England. The engines will be worth nearly $190,000,000. (Packard's total 1939 automobile sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The'4Is | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Plymouth has 13 body styles, has added a "getaway" gear between first and second to give four speeds forward. This year it has a new safety tire rim, one-piece hood and horsepower up to 87. Prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The'4Is | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...Harvard alumnus the boy-hood dream of going back to school and beating up on teacher has come true although this alumnus operated at long range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IRWIN ROSS FLAYS CONANT'S FIRING OF POPULAR TEACHERS | 9/21/1940 | See Source »

...dates each. Flagstad drew 225,000 to Grant Park, 20,000 to Manhattan's Stadium, but only 3,000 on a hot night in Philadelphia's Dell. Oscar Levant's fame in Information Please is paying out. He had four engagements, drew 10,000 at Robin Hood Dell. Marian Anderson brought the Stadium its top audience, 23,000 customers. Last week Baritone John Charles Thomas and 8,000 other musicians, including a 2,000-piece band, packed 100,000 people in Soldier Field for the annual Chicagoland Music Festival (admission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Festivals | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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