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...sudden increase in motor sales this spring largely caused the increase in tire prices. The ensuing price reduction is in part seasonal, since the heaviest tire sales always occur in the spring and demand slackens by July. But it also indicates that, despite the enormous output of motor vehicles this year, the tire makers have more than kept up with them...
What pedestrians on the Bowery and Park Avenue, Manhattan, took to be a military parade of 14 armored motor cars, with submachine guns bristling from their portholes, was in reality the Adams Express fleet moving the assets of the Bowery Savings Bank from its old site at the Bowery and Grand Street to its new building opposite the Grand Central Station on Forty-second Street. As the Bank's assets totaled $202,000,000, there was good reason for this elaborate protection...
Lloyd's of London have insured Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, famous American ace, against flying accidents for $1,000,000, the biggest aviation policy ever written. Rickenbacker, now an official of the Rickenbacker Motor Company, Detroit, saves time on his automobile inspection trips by flying about the country and claims there is less danger in the air than on automobile-congested roads. Most insurance policies are nullified in case of flying accidents...
...cylinder engine weighs only 20 pounds and is scarcely bigger than a phonograph motor. It develops 12 horsepower and the plane can fly 60 miles to the gallon. Yet so skilled is the design that Barbot flew to 6,000 feet in 30 minutes, and can attain a speed of 70 miles an hour...
Before a crowd of 150,000-the greatest throng that ever witnessed a sporting event in America-Tommy Milton, of St. Paul, won for the second successive year the 500-mile race over the Indianapolis motor speedway. Milton's H. C. S. special covered the distance in 5 hrs., 28 min., 6 sec., for an average of 91.4 miles an hour. He collected $35,000 for the victory. The mechanical surprise of the afternoon was a specially built flivver which finished fifth...