Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mild Cheers. The winners, greeted with polite applause but no marked enthusiasm: German Drivers Hermann Lang and Fritz Riess in a Mercédès-Benz. Another Mercédès, also with German drivers, was second. Third went to a British-driven Nash-Healey. And fourth, of the 17 cars that managed to finish, was fagged-out Cunningham, who, after 19½ hours of driving, had turned the wheel over to Spear. Winning, and record, distance set by the Mercédès-Benz: 2,320 miles, at an average speed of 96.67 m.p.h...
Plenty of new uses are already appearing. For example, Buick's Dynaflow transmission alone uses 20 Ibs. of aluminum v. 7 Ibs. formerly used in the entire automobile. Chrysler is using aluminum in disc brakes; Nash is using aluminum extrusions for doors. G.E. is using it to replace brass in the base and sockets of light bulbs. Building (aluminum window frames, doors, roofing, which never need painting and last virtually forever) is already using one-third of total output...
...three-day test to determine the most economical and efficient U.S. autos on the road. Not entered in the 1,415-mile run, designed to put the cars through every weather test a motorist is likely to encounter: Buick, Cadillac, Crosley, Dodge, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Willys. Some Nash dealers entered cars, but withdrew them at the request of the company. It contends that light cars have no prospect of winning the grand prize under present rules of the contest. And one De Soto, which ran out of gas, was disqualified for refueling from an unauthorized station...
...field of productive scholarship, Nash has conducted research in the analytical, chemistry of gaseous systems, and has developed new techniques of gas analysis...
...brilliant scientist, Dr. Nash is well-known in the field for his outstanding work in Gas Analysis...