Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week another Akron company, B. F. Goodrich Co. (Silvertown Cords), proposed a merger. Chief Miller products are tires (Miller De Luxe Balloon: "The tire sensation of a decade"), but the company also makes a complete line of rubber goods. Another recent step in Goodrich expansion was the acquisition of Hood Rubber Co. (TIME, Sept...
...high. Some models of the Willys-Knight are painted partly to resemble Scotch plaid; radiator caps are lower, some being merely dummies. One dummy cap is fashioned like a gunsight, perhaps to perfect the driver's aim. Some cars (Franklin, Packard, Graham) have abandoned ventilating slits in the hood and substituted small doors. The Pierce-Arrow, tenaciously traditional, retains its headlights on the fenders...
...manner; many-hued rayon-silk covers the seats; Egyptian sculpture motives have been adapted for dashboard instruments; vivid soda-fountain marble is used for gear shift handles. With the introduction of non-dulling, non-rusting chrome-nickels, there are more cars with shiny, metallic surfaces than ever before. The hood is sometimes of different texture from the rest of the body...