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...mining and metallurgy, transportation, engineering, aeronautics, etc., etc., flocking to Europe to study exhibits in such places as the German Museum in Munich, which contains replicas or originals of epochal contrivances, including James Watt's first steam engine, Diesel's oil-compression engine, Dunlop's original rubber tires. The finding of these experts will assist Chicago's industrialists as well as New York's, in assembling a record of the material ascendancy of mankind, a record that is to be made practical rather than theoretical, with many work ng models of machinery, to afford inventors...
...Five hundred color combinations, 50 body styles and types. Chevrolet has centralized throttle and spark control and automatic stop light on all closed models; brighter, more striking Duco colors; new motor mounting; new camshaft. Nash has refined motor, 25% more power, 23% faster accelerator, new instrument board. Oakland. "The rubber-silenced chassis"; new bodies, new Duco colors. Star offers "more power and superior quality . . . new body lines, new colors, new mechanical refinements." Studebaker stresses "The President"; "custom car without custom car cost." Stutz. Safety glass in all windows and windshield, with no extra cost; new braking system built by Timken...
...fancy for certainly no more sordid motive than profit. Today's dreamers spoof with "The Spokesman Hoax," with the ignoble design of evading responsibility- nothing more. Gentlemen breakfast, then naturally desire to know what the Chief Executive thinks, for example, about increasing, by Congressional legislation, acreage on Philippine rubber plantations. What do gentlemen read?". . . The Spokesman for the President indicated that the Administration feels favorably inclined toward rubber projects" (TIME, Aug. 16). Gentlemen glance at a Mr. Kellogg headline. ". . . The Spokesman for the Secretary of State can make no comment upon the Mexican situation." There must even...
Armed with information from journalists, representatives, ex-governors, Carmi Alderman Thompson and young Mr. Firestone, the Spokesman for the President expressed himself as favorably inclined toward encouragement of rubber projects...
Going home, Mr. Adams pondered chicle's possibilities as a commercial rubber, but his subsequent attempts at vulcanizing (baking to harden) it, all failed. He tried to utilize it as a base for false teeth, but that failed. With $35 capital, Mr. Adams founded Adams & Son, chewing gum manufacturers, which merged in 1899 into the American Chicle Company, capital of about $2,000,000, producers of sticks of "health-giving, circulation-building, teeth-preserving, digestion-aiding, brain-refreshing, jaw-developing, soul-tuning chewing...