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Buick comes in four series, all straight-eights, with convertibles available in the first three. Optional at $102.25 extra on the low-priced Special Series 40, not available on higher-priced models, is an automatic gear-shift-a lever at right angles to the driving post just below the steering wheel. One movement is necessary, all others are automatic, eliminating 80% of clutch operation, cutting engine r.p.m. 18% by a new fourth speed. Also new is coil-type rear-springing...
Cadillac has five 1938 lines: Cadillac Sixty, V8, Sixteen, Fleetwood, LaSalle. Only new motor is in the Sixteen, which has 1937's 185 h.p. but less weight and size. Fleetwood claims the world's roomiest body; Sixty has no running boards. All models have gear lever on the steering post, but shifting is not automatic...
Graham has been dressed up more radically than any other 1938 model, with fenders and radiator grille both showing a pronounced forward rake, headlights faired into the front of the fenders. Doors are extrawide. Dashboard has a tacho-speedometer, showing r.p.m. as well as m.p.h. Optional is a gearshift lever running out from beneath the dash...
...Each typewriter letter is the same width.) Thus, capital W gets eight units of space, lower-case i or I only two units. The machine uses a 300-ft. paper ribbon, which runs through only once, thus keeping the copy uniform in blackness. There is also a stroke control lever which, when advanced, produces bold-face copy. With a new typewriter* and Mr. SpielVogel's aligning paper, copy can be turned out that looks like typeset...
...Procter & Gamble Co. 1,293 2,075 Standard Brands, Inc. 1,141 1,263 Ford Motor Co. 1,106 680 Chrysler Corp. 1,635 430 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co 1,585 439 Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. 1,034 651 General Foods Corp. 760 1,075 Lever Bros. 662 1,133 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. 1,107 947 American Tobacco Co. 919 636 Bristol-Myers...