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...made possible by improved design and the use of lighter materials throughout. By using high tensile alloy steel, weight of the car has been cut from 180,000 Ib. to around 120,000 Ib. Complete welding of the sides removes all rivet heads and joints, makes them stronger and sleeker. Between cars are semi-articulated sections, and aprons between trucks conceal the car's mechanical equipment. More innovations: flush windows, entrance steps that roll out of sight, vestibule at one end only...
Hudson & Hudson Terraplane are both longer, lower, sleeker. Hudson comes as an eight or a six. Terraplane as a six. Both have an improved version of the electric gearshift lever on the steering column which was the first of its kind ever mass-produced when introduced two years...
...Hall to release visitors who forced themselves into the hands of police. True to Democratic tradition, the delegates were a far more boisterous, fiery, tempestuous crowd than Republicans ever were. Two out of every three of them were political officeholders or Party workers and they went to Philadelphia looking sleeker, better fed and better dressed than when they went to Chicago four years ago. Not a few of them had money to spend in Philadelphia nightclubs...
...Automobile is longer, roomier, sleeker, faster and, with a few exceptions, it is more expensive (5% to 10% above last year). Nearly every model has felt the hand of the aerodynamics engineer. The mechanical benefits of streamlining-higher speed (against reduced air resistance) at less cost-have led every motormaker directly to the practical problem of increased riding comfort. The new streamlined car had to offer smoother transportation at 70 m.p.h. than the old high-bodied model did at 50 m.p.h. This necessity resulted in the major mechanical innovation of the year-independent front wheel suspension. Heretofore front springs...
...wily inspector and his ponderous Chinese proverbs are better off on the screen or between book covers than on the stage. An ex-husband of a leering opera singer assembles her and three of his marital successors in his Lake Tahoe hunting lodge. Actor William Harrigan, a younger, sleeker, slightly more occidental Chan than cinema's Warner Oland, gets a head start when he is added to the party, to find out what happened to a son whom the host believes the singer bore him. The femme fatale is shot almost under the inspector's eyes...