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...line with Weaver's findings-though in some cases ''discovered" independently by other manufacturers using more prosaic methods-are such changes on GM's new cars as lower centre of gravity, improved visibility, partial elimination of running boards, gear shift lever on steering post, door locks on both front doors in some models, locks on ventipanes. Most 1939 cars have the headlights submerged in the fenders; GM's still have their lights mounted independently. Other Weaver conclusions about the public...
Jack and Jill, while a modern magazine for modern moppets, will not thrust aside the traditional Teddy-bear atmosphere and playroom gear of the child's World to reveal the razzle-dazzle streamlined machine age of rocketing Buck Rogers. Designed to tweak the curiosity of young readers or listeners will be stories giving a sound if rudimentary picture of the physical world and modern industry. Novel literary features include: vocational stories "appealing to the child's deep interest in the motorman, the fireman, the engineer, etc."; "Paper Tearing," a section "designed to satisfy a child's constant...
Yesterday's practice was one of the most impressive so far this season, and the passing attack which will undoubtedly be the spearhead of tomorrow's offense against the Cadets, was functioning in high gear...
...that won the first U.S. automobile race (Chicago, 1895) and led the parade for several years with Barnum's circus, never burned up the roads in a business way. Duryea was for simplification, economy. One model had only three wheels, another had all the functions of steering, braking, gear shifting, spark control and acceleration combined in a single lever. His competitors went out for speed and class, an abundance of gadgets. By 1914 Duryea had quit competing...
...rotation of the earth, transverse currents of air are generated. Theoretically these currents cut across the more stable air tongues, dividing each air tongue into three parts or "cells" - a centre cell in which the circulation is counterclockwise, between two cells in which the circulation is clockwise - like three gear wheels revolving in series. Friction tends to develop kinetic energy, ultimately generating strong winds in the centre cell of each air tongue. The two outer cells tend to disperse this energy north and south. The effects of this dispersion reach the ground, and ground friction furthers the action...