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...great Berlin office of Mercédés-Daimler-Bentz there was high glee last week as Nazi automotive engineers chuckled over observations made in Manhattan by President William B. Stout of the American Society of Automotive Engineers. "The best way to make the present day car ride easy," declared President Stout, "is to put a lot of weight in the back end. Four hundred pounds of cement in the back seat helps a lot, but if we can put the engine back there and save the weight of the cement we get a better ride, better traction...
Since just such a rear-engine car is now in its second year of sleek production by Mercédés, Nazis might well smirk at President Stout's exhortation to the U. S. automotive industry to pull itself together and build likewise. Standardized U. S. cars he found "so alike . . . that a price war has started which eventually must ruin the industry if economic history is right. . . . What is needed at this stage is not so much intellectualism that can design the car, or intelligence that can run the firm, but somebody who is 'smart...
Startling to Europeans, but confirming their general impression of what U. S. motoring is like, was this prediction by President Stout: "More attention is going to be paid to crash-padding of the interior. . . . Crashes are going to be a part of automobile ownership and the time has come when they must be taken into consideration in design." Very soon every U. S. car, President Stout hopes, will not only be well padded inside but all projections against which passengers may be flung and gashed if they crash, will be smoothed and rounded, "doing away with all sharp corners, exposed...
...stout Maintainer was referring to the gale which whistled over Cambridge on the evening of Wednesday, December 26, and blew over two eight-foot chimneys on Holyoke House and ripped off numerous skylights on other buildings. The chimneys are now being rebuilt and the roof over the Cambridge Trust Company, struck by one of them as it toppled over, is having half a dozen new rafters put in. The piece of tin, about ten feet square, which was scaled from the top of University Hall is part of a temporary roof installed immediately after the war of 1812. Action...
...eyes to "soft living." The lady takes to reading Red literature. When her husband uncovers the situation, the lacy makes a decision. The Communist is on his way to Toulouse and his hostess is preparing to join in his political vaga bondage by ordering herself a pair of stout walking shoes...