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...never lost. With his plane grounded by storms on the Atlantic, doubts begin to dance across his mind. Can The Spirit of St. Louis carry the needed 450 gallons of gas weighing 2,700 Ibs.? He has never tested it with more than 300 gallons, for fear a tire would blow out on landing. Can he fly with the big gas tank in front of the cockpit, and no visibility ahead except for a makeshift periscope? Can he navigate a whole ocean with simple compasses? Even Nungesser and Coli have been lost over the Atlantic. Why should he succeed...
...speed along the Zworykin highway in a wide and orderly stream, passing and repassing like strands in a braided belt. The drivers will have nothing to do; they can sleep or play cards or stare at the flowing road. Then some irregularity-an electronic failure or a blown front tire-pokes a mischievous finger into the smooth system. The dreaming drivers awake only when their cars are already piling in great, mangled heaps...
...Able) Kimball, 57, who resigned as Secretary of the Navy last January, became president of Aerojet-General Corp., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary. No stranger to General Tire, Kimball joined the company after World War I, was executive vice president and general manager of Aerojet Engineering Corp. (which merged with Crosley Motors last March to become Aerojet-General) when he left for Washington...
...Government is engaged in everything from tire-recapping to coffee-roasting, from binding books to freezing ice cream (162 plants) and making brooms and spectacles. It owns some 122,000 housing units, and by the Comptroller General's estimate, rents them at a loss. Every Washington agency operates its own fleet of motor vehicles, although one central motor pool (not to mention taxis) could handle the job. General Services Administration maintains a fleet of trucks for moving Government furniture about Washington, and since some of the trucks may be used only half a day a week, private movers could...
...Nylon Tires. Three tire companies-Firestone, Goodrich and U.S. Rubber-announced their first nylon cord tires (Goodyear has had one since April). Firestone's is the first tubeless nylon tire, while Goodrich brought out a nylon truck tire, with a tread 46% thicker than usual, which it says will last up to 100,000 miles. U.S. Rubber claims its nylon passenger tire has 95% more bruise resistance than standard tires. Prices run 6% to 15% higher than regular tire lines...