Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bone. When a person, especially if elderly, falls the knob is apt to break off from the thigh bone. Healing has been a tremendously difficult and painful process. Last year Dr. David Robert Telson of Brooklyn suggested piercing the knob and shaft and lacing them together with stout piano wire. This procedure works to a degree. But the stoutest piano wire gives a little. Last week Dr. Frederick J. Gaenslen of Milwaukee said that he got dependable cures of broken hips by nailing the knob and shaft together with steel spikes about half the thickness of a lead pencil...
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...
Piquant to firms like the English house which lists itself in London's telephone directory as "Rolls-Royce Ltd., Motor Chassis Manufacturer" and builds no bodies whatever, seemed the philosophy of U. S. automotive engineers as capsuled by President Stout: "The car must look right above all things. The machinery part is easy and does not even need to be worried about...
Along with Germans, Czechoslovaks were proud last week that they too have in standard production the rear-engine car of President Stout's production dreams. Made by the great automobile & locomotive firm of Tatra, it sells for about 30,000 koruny...