Word: tonneau
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...high behind instead of high in front, tapering behind. The new De Soto is an approach to the sweeping curve of a tear drop. Its front mounds up in a smooth curve over the engine, with headlights and other gadgets embedded in its solid structure. The hump of the tonneau is in the centre rather than at the rear of the car. The engine is over, not behind, the front axle. The rear seat is moved forward some 20 inches from its old place on top of the rear axle to slope off the body. The front seat has been...
While a secret service man and a secretary sat in the open tonneau, the President and his closest advisers held elbow-to-elbow conferences. He urged Secretary Ickes to get up steam behind the new Civil Works program. With General Johnson he discussed 25 codes which the NRAdministrator had brought from Washington to be signed. When Acting Secretary Morgenthau rode beside the President, the wind wobbling both their pince-nez, the talk was of the Administration's embattled monetary program. Toward sundown the President would drive his guests up to his tight little white frame cottage on Pine Mountain...
...sour note. His remark was commonplace enough, considered in the light of our own days, but in 1926 it had an alien and an unfriendly sound. What would happen when the market had been glutted by his ever more efficient production, when the only people devoid of a Ford tonneau were the people devoid of a Ford tonneau were the people without money or the prospects of earning...
...drove the car with the white rat somewhere inside. Sometimes it would come out in the tonneau, frisking over the seats. Once it appeared on the hood, dashed across the windshield. Finally, one day, Mr. Baldwin drove over a bumpy road. Out fell the rat. Mr. Baldwin sped away, last saw the rat running after...
...known of his yearning for high public office. Now 52, he started as a youngster in Ransom E. Olds's automobile factory, photographing Oldsmobiles for the catalog. At 24 he was the Olds sales manager, drove the first car from Detroit to New York in one week, the tonneau piled high with spare parts. He helped organize the Hudson company, became its president in 1910, board chairman in 1923. The Essex "Terraplane" is Mr. Chapin's latest mechanical achievement. A persistent agitator for good roads, he headed the Highway Transport Committee of the Council for National Defense during...