Word: teardrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last words in trucks this year are streamlining, lightness, safety and C. O. E. (cab over engine). By compressing the front of a truck so the driver sits directly over the engine, the maker gains numerous advantages: 1) better teardrop streamlining; 2) equal freight capacity with considerably shorter wheelbase, which makes driving and parking easier; 3) better load distribution, so that the front wheels carry as much weight as the rear wheels. Practically all truck makers have plumped for C. O. E. Profiting by the experience of automobile makers who rushed too fast into streamlining, most truck makers have adopted...
...when the chance came to work for the playwright who had made Miss Adams famed. The piece was Sir James Barrie's Dear Brutus. The leading man was William Gillette.* And there was not a dry eye in the house when Helen Hayes got through wringing the last teardrop out of the scene in the wood where Gillette, the childless artist, meets the daughter he might have...
...left the merry Oldsmobile and ended up in Hudson in its infancy. He agrees with those engineers who believe that the place to begin streamlining is the rear, not the front of a car. And Hudsons and Terraplanes show his attention to rears, which this year are all strictly teardrop...