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Other new wrinkles include rotary door latches that catch without slamming; increased visibility through bigger windshield area; sliding sunshine panels in sedan tops; "catwalk-cooling" grilles low-set on the catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Four-Wheel Debutantes | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Hooked into a communications circuit to relay their warnings were the lines of 15 local telephone companies (to the vast pride of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s C.P. ["Old Man Mac"] McClure, retired, who installed the first telephone in the State). Off shore, Coast Guard cutters bore observers. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Wonderful Net | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Unlike most labor organizations, A.F.A. did not regard willingness to join as a recommendation for membership; repentance before baptism was its motto. It planned to make carnivals respectable or break them. This was clever salesmanship on the part of A.F.A. Bulletins sent to State and county fair officials, mayors, sheriffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Sent to the Cleaners | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

At the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla., Franks Manufacturing Corp. put on display a new, aluminum-colored, portable rotary drilling rig which can be mounted on an automobile trailer. It attracted little attention. Just to have something to do, attendants started up the rig and began to drill. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Exhibit | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

It is well known to undergraduates that there is a small "rotary traffic" circle at the junction of four paths in Lowell. Whether this plot was designed merely to lengthen the journey across the court or was considered a contribution to Lowell's famed architectural excellence, has not been determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Traffic Circle" Compels Bellboys to Hike 13 Extra Miles in Three Years | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

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