Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Studebaker offers, besides its three eights-"President," "Commander" and "Dictator" (prices $1,095 UP)-a new 70 h. p. six at prices from $795 up. All have the Studebaker development, "free wheel-ing" (TIME, July...
...will attain 100 m.p.h. Salesmen say it goes ten miles per gallon of gasoline. Production will start early next year, might have been delayed longer had not the 16-cylincer Cadillac come out. The car will sell at around $5,500. Spark and throttle are not on the steering wheel but on the dash. Radiator and gas tank cap are hidden. On the hubcaps the buyer may have either the name of the car or a dash of lightning. For the first time in history, one man designed the entire car. He was Walter Dorwin Teague, new to automobile designing...
...faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened in the delicate bow, bashed 'by tons of water every minute. For days on end two men were lashed to the wheel day & night, three worked the pumps, three slept. Nobody looked sternward where the seas piled up. They felt better looking ahead. Every man on board was seasick though all were experienced sailors except 200-lb. Whitey Peterson of Bristol, R. I. Landlubber Peterson fought the sea like a personal enemy...
...buildings; went to Los Angeles, prospered in stocks, hotels, penny slot-machines. So greatly did he prosper that he could play the market in company with that once great bull William Crapo Durant. He became and still is a director of Hupp Motor Car Corp. and of Budd Wheel...
With so agile and active a head, New Era Motors seemed bound to have a dashing history. Some months after it was formed, it acquired the Ruxton patents for a front-wheel drive. Rights to manufacture Ruxtons were sold to Moon Motor Co. Also, William Crapo Durant sold to Moon rights to manufacture his American cotton picker, of which much has been said, not much seen. New Era Motors received 150,000 shares of Moon in the deal, soon decided to oust the old Moon management. This was done. In the struggle, aided by tales of the cotton picker, Moon...