Automotive Abstracts, Volume 4John Younger Penton Publishing Company, 1926 - Automobile industry and trade |
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Page 341 - I shall use the word oiliness and define it as the property that causes a difference in the friction when two lubricants of the same viscosity at the temperature of the film are used under identical conditions.
Page 390 - When we stop to consider the part which advertising plays in the modern life of production and trade we see that basically it is that of education. It informs its readers of the existence and nature of commodities by explaining the advantages to be derived from their use and creates for them a wider demand. It makes new thoughts, new desires, and new actions. By changing the attitude of mind it changes the material condition of the people.
Page 251 - ... to a flat five dollars a day, for then we increased the buying power of our own people, and they increased the buying power of other people, and so on and on. It is this thought of enlarging buying power by paying high wages and selling at low prices which is behind the prosperity of this country. It is the fundamental motive of our company. We call it the "wage motive.
Page 133 - Study," which embodies the Division's estimates of sales in units and in dollars, costs, profits, capital requirements, and return on investment, both at Standard Volume and at the forecast rate of operations for the new sales year, all on the basis of proposed price. This Price Study, in addition to serving as an annual forecast, also develops the standard price of each product; that is, the price which, with the plant operating at standard volume, would produce the adjudged normal average rate...
Page 321 - Is it inevitable or basically sound or desirable that larger and larger crowds be brought into the city's center; do we want to stimulate housing congestion along subway lines and develop an intensive rather than an extensive city...
Page 271 - Cotton textiles for aeronautics. — At the request of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department...
Page 174 - The Model 447-B engine is a four-cylinder radial engine of the reciprocating piston type operating on the four-stroke cycle. The engine employs the Fairchild-Caminez drive cam mechanism in which reciprocating motion of the pistons is converted into rotary motion of the propeller shaft by means of rollers in the piston operating on a double lobed cam. The mechanism is such that each piston completes four strokes per revolution of the propeller shaft. With the four stroke cycle that is used, each piston,...
Page 183 - Nor is it many years ago that our labor unions considered that the maximum of jobs and the greatest security in a job were to be attained by restricting individual effort. "But we are a long way on the road to new conceptions. The very essence of great production is high wages and low prices. It depends upon a widening range of consumption from high real wages and increasing standards of living. To-day the majority of employers in times of desperation exhaust every device to make ends meet before...
Page 47 - In view of these conclusions your committee begs to report that in their opinion there are at present no good grounds for prohibiting the use of ethyl gasoline of the composition specified, as a motor fuel, provided that its distribution and use are controlled by proper regulations.
Page 105 - AN ACT To encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes.