Word: carrings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the construction of a 400-car parking garage this fall, M.I.T. begins a program which may call for as many as ten such structures in the next few years. Because of the number of cars now parking regularly at the Institute and elsewhere in Cambridge, open lots are "a luxury we can no longer afford," President Julius A. Stratton explained...
...After the war, Cadillac assigned Cole to apply his tank know-how to building an experimental rear-engine Cadillac. It was a weird monster, with the engine in the back seat and dual rear tires. But during the icy winter of 1945-46 while his neighbors' cars skidded around the driveways, Cole's sped off with sure-handed ease. That car proved to Cole "that the rear engine provides better steering and handling on slippery roads.'' But it also showed him that a rear engine for a big car posed enormous problems...
...lighter (25%) than the Caddy's previous power plant, yet stepped up power by 7% to 160 h.p., and stretched fuel economy at first by 15%-and eventually to 19 miles per gallon. But Cole still hankered to perfect a rear engine for cars. In his spare time he designed a tank powered by an air-cooled, horizontally opposed engine (the same kind as in the Corvair). When the Korean war broke out, the Army grabbed the plan for its T-41 tank, and Cole was made boss of Cadillac's huge plant in Cleveland. There his idea...
...Little Intrigue." A devoted sports-car fan, Cole also volunteered to develop the sporty Corvette when no other G.M. division wanted it. "The Corvette gave the whole Chevy Division a little intrigue, and, believe me, we needed intrigue," says Cole, who likes to use the word "intrigue" to connote sex appeal and daring. Cole still enjoys running Corvettes around Chevy's test tracks at 115 m.p.h. He also ordered a 30% speedup in the escalators of Chevy's new engineering center; engineers call them the "turnpikes...
Even as the steel strike forced layoffs in many industries (see below), other sectors of the U.S. economy last week were girding for a fourth-quarter surge after the strike ends. Railroad freight-car loadings rose to their highest point since the beginning of the strike and 20.3% above the previous week, reflecting increased coal shipments to steel-producing centers in anticipation of the strike...