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...base is broadened (front: 2¼ inches; rear: if inches); 2) to lessen skid danger, braking pressure is now distributed not evenly but 60% to the front wheels, 40% to the rear; 3) the exhaust system has been "streamlined." The Ford front end has been redesigned around a small, rectangular grille, and gingerbread held to a pleasing minimum...
Lincolns for '42 include Zephyrs, Customs, Continentals. The low-priced Zephyrs feature a two-step, boxlike front end, rectangular fenders. The Customs, available in "formal or semiformal" body styles, sacrifice no dignity for the sake of streamlining. Swankiest of all are the long, low-swung Continentals, crown jewel of Ford engineering. Squarish rear decks and little gingerbread give them a European air. Lincoln horsepower...
...London announced last week that the R.A.F. bombed The Netherlands with 1,000,000 of a new type delayed-action bombs. Each was a rectangular box about three inches by two inches by one, colored orange-in honor of the House of Orange. Each bore the letters V (for Victory) and W (for Wilhelmina). Inside each box were 20 little white cylinders-cigarets made of tobacco from The Netherlands Indies and marked OZO (for Oranje Zal Overwinnen -Orange Will Triumph). Their hoped-for delayed action: sabotage, resistance, violence against the Nazis...
...seating-sections situated relatively close to the 50-yard line, as well as generally good visibility from almost any point in the stands. This is hardly true of Harvard Stadium. Its downfield visibility, especially in the lower tiers, cannot approach the fullness of a view from the Bowl. Virtually rectangular in construction, the Soldiers Field amphitheatre contains only two sections actually centered between the 40-yard markers; and since there are no seating facilities on the field itself, one of these sections is permanently occupied by members of the football squads and their coaching staffs...
Packard values its traditional rectangular radiator, has kept it on the new cars but smoothed corners elsewhere. Sleekness is achieved by eliminating hood louvers. Available in the five series is true air conditioning with cooling unit and humidifier in the trunk. Two-tone color combinations are outside and inside. Prices: $907 to $5,550 (for LeBaron limousine). Besides making cars, Packard is busy building a new plant to make 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines for U. S. and England. The engines will be worth nearly $190,000,000. (Packard's total 1939 automobile sales...