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...magazine Tekhnika Molodezhy (Technology for Youth) tossed off a few more sparks. Russians, reiterated Tekhnika, had invented the electric arc, the electric light, the electric motor and high-tension power transmissions. And how had the capitalist U.S. utilized these Russian gifts to mankind? By inventing the electric chair, which, "lately, has been used more & more to do away with revolutionary workers condemned to death with the assistance of dirty police provocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Electrified Age | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

William C. Ford, grandson of Henry, was elected a director of the Ford Motor Co., eight months before he would graduate from Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...only 5 ft. 3 in. high and completely redesigned from grill to luggage compartment. With seats eight inches wider than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame in the rear. Price of the '49 Ford: $1,163 and up, f.o.b. Detroit, an average increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Low, Wide & Hard to Get | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Short Putt. In North College Hill, Ohio, Charles A. Lasure, 82, rested overnight after a 1,000-mile junket from Ardmore, Okla., then started back the way he had come: by motor scooter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Akihito, riding his motor scooter around the grounds of his palace in East Tokyo, seemed in no hurry to become a symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Spots on the Symbol | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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