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...Mobile radar, mounted on two two-wheel trailers can instantly pinpoint hidden enemy mortars more than six miles distant (mortar fire accounted for more than half the Army's World War II and Korean war casualties...
...North Pole, he designed projects ranging from a house that was hung from a duralumin mast to bathrooms with no running water (only an air hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap needed). Among his other Dymaxion ("dynamic" plus "maximum service") products have been a three-wheel, rear-engined automobile and a house that can be stowed away in an aluminum container. None of them ever went into mass production. Bucky got a reputation as a man of tomorrow for whom tomorrow never came...
Ordering moved so briskly for American Motors' Rambler (72,566 firm orders from dealers v. 35,607 at the same time in 1957) that President George Romney again boosted his sales predictions-from 252,000 to 300,000. He advertised the 100-in. wheel base Rambler American for a factory list price...
...ruling was handed down in the case of bicycle tariffs. In March 1955 the Tariff Commission recommended an increase in duties on large-wheel, lightweight bicycles from 7^% of value to 22^% of value. The President boosted duties to only ni% of value. He erred, ruled the court: "If the President does not accept the findings of the commission, he should reject them, not compromise them...
...year-old blond giant, at the wheel of a Ferrari, had to come from behind in the second half of the 402.906 kilometer race to edge Moss by a single point for the throne abdicated by Argentina's famed Juan Manuel Fangio...