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...Ford executives were frankly surprised at the sketch of the front end of the Ford: it looked like a Studebaker, bore little resemblance to their 1955 model. The most accurate sketch was of the Dodge, with a flat hood and rear deck, high fender lines, and a wrap-around windshield with the window post slanting back, instead of being perpendicular as in G.M. cars. But there was no doubt that next year will bring the greatest spate of major restyling in postwar auto history: a total of nine completely revamped models (1954 total: three...
...Centralia, Wash., reporters seized upon a theory propounded by Building Materials Dealer Jack Scherer: windshield glass is made from silica sand, which abounds on the Pacific shores of the State of Washington. Silica sand is full of sand-flea eggs. So, when the windshields get warm enough, the eggs hatch and the fleas have to chip the glass to get out. When he learned that his facetiously offered explanation had been wired across the country, the astonished Scherer granted that it was no more ridiculous than some others that had been publicized...
Since the pilot must keep his eyes on the lights ahead, he cannot watch the instrument panel to keep track of his air speed. So the Admiralty provides him with a set of colored lights that reflect in his windshield. Connected with an air speed indicator, they tell him if he is flying too fast (red), too slow (yellow), or just right (green...
...ordinary daytime vision is 20/20, then visual acuity at night, through clear glass, is cut to 20/32. A popular "night glass" of light yellow reduces visual acuity only to 20/34. But Dr. Miles found that a second popular shade, pink, cut visual acuity to 20/40. Finally, a green windshield reduced nighttime acuity to 20/46, but in combination with the pink glasses, it slashed vision to a deadly 20/60...
...Cadillac has used its 1953 Le Mans experimental car as the model for the 1954 line. The Cadillac has a new sweep, with a wrap-around windshield, larger tail fins, and jutting, jetlike exhaust pipes. There is a new suspension system, a more powerful engine (up to 230 h.p. from 210), cowl-type air vents instead of standard air intakes (which often sucked in the exhaust from cars ahead). As on most G.M. cars, prices are little changed, except for Cadillac's Eldorado convertible, cut $2,000, to $5,700 f.o.b. Detroit...