Gadgets Fuel the Car Accessory Boom
A long look at how motor car gadgets moved from mail order lists to standard parts. Innovations like electrically started engines met resistance but became common, with counties and climates shaping what is adopted. Car designers and gadget makers push new features while back up lights and door safety locks spread.
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Charles F_ Kettering
America
Indianapolis Speedway
Ray Harroun
Provinipely
Jay Hayes
James
Hastman Electric
Hayes
Cars Claim Fastest Auto Era in Detroit Roundup
St Clair Shores, Michigan garage owners assert their souped up Ford is the fastest on the road and challenge rivals to prove it. They say Cadillac motor cars cannot match it as they boast the top speed and performance in a bold street comparison.
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Detroit
St Clair Shores
Michigan
Harald Sheldon
Walter Williams
Sheldon
Williams
Ford
Sheldon and Williams
Florida
Playboys
Ford Motor Company
Shelder
Kaiser Price Slashes On 1951 Kaiser Models
Keiser-Frezer Corp cuts up to 96 on 1951 Kaiser models. Prices range from 1859 for a business coupe to 2099 for a deluxe four door. Production will start next month with a low priced sedan due in August.
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Detroit
Keiser-Frezer Corporation
Keiser
Kaiser
de Martini
Willow Run
Soviet Science Declares Itself Partisan Science
A London dispatch reports a leading Soviet scientist claiming Soviet science has ceased to be universal and instead serves partisan policy. Nature letters by British scientists accuse Russia of subserving science, notably plant life research, to Communist ideology. Soviet critic N L Nuzhdin of the Academy of Sciences responds that Soviet science is declared partisan, serving the proletariat and its progress.
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London
Nature
Russia
Seierce
N. L Nuzhdin
Institute of Genetics
The
Soviet Academy of Sciences
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