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Feeling that nobody can look far ahead, Inventor Kettering maintains that research "is a method of finding out what people will be wanting when they are through wanting what they are wanting now." He feels there is still too much of the horseless carriage about automobiles but would blame it on the public's demands rather than on any engineering deficiency. He visions "a great express highway traversing the continent and carrying an almost fabulous stream of traffic, travelling well over a mile a minute." the cars of that not too distant future looking "no more like our cars...
This might have caused countless horses to turn in their glue pots, for it is the ultimate disgrace since the advent of the horseless buggy. Ever since the horse lost the rest of its toos, it has trod on them to oblivion. Soon the use of the horse will become a fond memory, along with the mustacho cup; and legend will have Lady Godiva ride a tricycle through the storm of ticker tape that greeted her for her non-stop flightiness...
...attained near-perfection. Then the automobile appeared on the vehicular horizon. In the early years of automobile manufacture the traditions of the ancient carriage craft were continued. The first automobile engine was mounted on a buggy chassis. The new vehicle was popularly associated with its predecessor and nicknamed the "horseless carriage" and "gasoline buggy." Ex-carriage makers became automobile body designers. Early cars were frequently entered from the rear (dog cart), equipped with horsewhip stands, often painted black and usually festooned with fringe, beautified with brass...
...considering current automobile productions and sale. Last week Mr. Chrysler pointed out that nine months' earnings per share were $5.50 (compared to $7.03 for twelve months of 1928). Meanwhile automotive bears talked of competition, saturation, production figures weighted by disproportionate Ford and Chevrolet output, saw no good in horseless carriage securities. To which bulls replied that automobile stocks, fundamentally sound, had been driven down to attractive levels...
...that 15% of Southern's 1928 freight traffic came from the automotive industry. Since Southern's 1928 passenger revenue was $24,000,000, of which 30% would be $7,200,000; and its freight revenue was $108,000,000, of which 15% is $16,200,000, the horseless carriage on the whole did not do so badly by the iron horse...