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Roller bearings, said Timken's intrepid ad, would permit "one-speed" railroading (identical speeds for freight and passenger trains), would accelerate the whole defense program, save building many new cars. Other roller-bearing claims: 1) starting resistance reduced by 88%; 2) elimination of hotbox delay; 3) reduced maintenance costs...
Testing normal men and women in a hotbox, the Hardy crew found that the women did not begin to perspire until the temperature of their skins was two degrees higher than "the threshold of sweating" in the men. This holding back is due to a more flexible metabolism in women, which simply slows down their internal heat production in hot weather...
...Hull bowed (no curtsy) to the visitors. Animated talk began. They all boarded the train, rumbled through the night toward Washington. In Pennsylvania, the pilot train was halted with a hotbox, streaked at 85 m.p.h. to try to catch the royal train at Washington. It was eight minutes late and all the ace correspondents who had trailed Their Majesties across Canada missed their first meeting with the Roosevelts...
What pleases me and doubtless hundreds of other not-so-die-hard Republicans was the remarkable way TIME analyzed our political hotbox out here into one of the most clean-cut, informative, and impartial . . . news stories it has ever been my privilege to read in your columns...