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...motorcycle-propelled beach chair complete with liveried chauffeur propels one dowager around Newport at a rate of 70 miles per gallon. Younger Newporters tear around on motor scooters and bicycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gas Pains | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Transportation is one habit which, the public may have to modify. The railroads are carrying more passengers than in any year since 1930 and are still looking for more (except on Washington trains and a few others). But motor transport is another story, because of the rubber shortage. For civilians, who have already cut their driving on the rationed East Coast by 55-65%. Dow Chemical's Thiokol (TIME, June 29) is the great white hope, with serious talk of enough by fall to retread 1,000,000 tires a month (out of 150,000,000 in use). Nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR ECONOMY: Anatomy of Suffering | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...have in use two tractors: one 'Caterpillar' 4O-h.p. diesel, 1937 model, and another a John Deere diesel model 'A', I also have a 10-h.p. diesel motor for other purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Advanced practice includes an hour of night flying and a little instrument flying. But there can be no practice in what glider pilots dread, even the most experienced -bad weather. For there is no substitute for a motor in escaping a storm. A student's last week of practice is devoted to troop carriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: At Twentynine Palms | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Steven Hannagan, the man who made Miami famous with his beach and girl pictures, last week landed Ford Motor Co.'s public-relations account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freer Trade | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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