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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cadillac offers 31 models in five series. New are the torpedo-type Sixty-Two, the Seventy-Two with six different sedan styles. Custom-built and unchanged are V-16s. Prices...
...loan, has slicked up its two series (Speedway and De Luxe) this year with deep-skirted front fenders, a beltline chrome strip from front to back. All by itself in the ultra-low field, Willys has dropped its prices 12% to $495 to $620. Improvements: New-type soft springs with rubber-lined clips, counterweight crankshaft, automatic carburetor...
...Water is an excellent conductor of sound, much better than air. As in air, abound wave in water registers against a diaphragm as a series of mechanical impulses. One early type of hydrophone was like a crude telephone. A rubber diaphragm immersed in the water received the impulses, transmitted them to a carbon-granule chamber, thence through wires to the earphones...
Discovery of a new type of underground earthquake wave, vitally affecting seismological theories and problems of building reinforcement, was reported today by Dr. L. Don Leet, Director of the University Seismograph Stations...
Disclosed by a series of observations of artificial earthquakes set off by dynamite explosions, the new wave-form is the fifth fundamental type known to science. The four previously known forms have been recognized for forty years. Dr. Leet said his new wave was not predicted in earthquake theory...