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...merely hard usage that deadens rubber billiard cushions, windshield strips, matting, packing, belting, hose, tires. The soft air sucks life just as surely, though more insidiously. At the chemical laboratories of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., a new product has been invented-neozone. Rubber treated with neozone resists the subtle deterioration caused by oxygen in the air, thus retains life longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Livelier Rubber | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...Rapid City police learned that a wrecked flivver had been found near their town with these words scrawled on the windshield: "I do not choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Smith & Carter. Two hours after the Army plane had left Oakland, two civilians-Pilot Ernest L. Smith and Navigator Charles H. Carter-set out to race it to Hawaii in a little Travelair plane. An unusual accident, the breaking of the navigator's windshield, caused the Travelair to return to Oakland in ten minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: To Hawaii | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Rumored Specifications. With what purported to be bona fide information, Detroit newspapers last week described the new motor car to be produced by the Ford Motor Co. as having for standard equipment a self-starter, five wire wheels, speedometer, windshield wiper, gasoline gauge, oil gauge, dash light, Houdaille shock absorbers and four-wheel brakes; 34-h.p. engine; gearshift transmission; 104-inch wheel base; selling-price from $450 for the touring model, to $490 for the Fordor sedan and coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Ford, New Rumors | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...20th Century Limited from Albany to New York in 1925. They are 33 feet long. They go 55 miles an hour. They are equipped with big Gar Wood Super Marine Engines, 12 cylinders, 500 horse power. Three men can sit abreast on the driver's seat behind the windshield. The most powerful Gar Wood costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motor Boats | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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