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VAST BOLL OF CORD
USED MAKING TIRES
Enough for Kite to Fly to
Moon Goes Through Mil
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AKRON, Ohio (Special) Most
j.verr boy has tried to fly a kite
out of sight, into the clouds some
hare succeeded. Boys have eren
been known to yearn for enough
kite cord, and strong enough, to
fly a kit to the moon. They hare
wondered what it would land on
there. If the cord should break.
These imaginative youths could
; realize their fondest dreams, per
haps, if they could have the vast
roll of unlflex cord that Is used,
! in a year, in making Miller tires.
,They "could fly twenty kites to the
moon with the great ball of about
;6,000,000 miles of cord that this
'company works into automobile
tires, every twelve months. In
other terms these miles equal
about 7,500,000,000 or 22,000,
000,000 feet. v
Scientists Bay that 4t Is 238,840
miles to the moon, from the earth.
Enough unifies cord is made into
tires each month, at this factory,
to fly a kite to the moon witb
plenty to spare. The circumfer
ence of the moon is said to be
about 8,500 miles. The cord used
ia tires at this factory, during a
year, would encircle the moon 700
times. The earth is nearly four
time as large as the moon, but
a white band of 206 strands would
make a white equator line, if this
great production of uniflex cord
was wrapped around it.
A youngster, dreaming of so
much cord, would probably per
mit his enthusiasm to cloud his
imagination. This great mass of
cc-rd weighs about 7,000,000
pounds and would require a train
of about 60 tons capacity each, to
transport it.
Although the cord Is not large,
it ia unusually strong. It has far
greater elasticity than the average
and is made under the direct su
pervision of textile experts, to keep
nto.the exacting standards.
Aviation Will Stimulate
Road Building, Declared
WASHINGTON. The develop
ment of aviation will stimulate
rather than retard the construc
tion of highways; the American
Koad Builders association stated
here in commenting on the accom
plishments of Byrd, Lindbergh and
Chamberlih. ; CX,-. tl" ,
"Great municipal landing fields
will be constructed along the prin
cipally travelled highways within
the near future," Charles M. Up
turn, business director of the road
organization, said. "Aviation will
serve as a supplement to highway
transportation and there will be
the same coordination between
airplane and the highway as has
been finally reached between the
railroad and the highway.
"For the first time in transpor
tation history, the subject of avi
ation and its influence on high
way construction will be discussed
by a meeting of road builders,
when the annual convention and
road show of the American Road
Builders' association convenes at
Cleveland on January 9, 1928.
Some 30,000 highway engineers,
contractors and officials are ex
pected to join in a wholehearted
encouragment of aviation and the
construction of landing fields. '
Wife Occupies Back Seat
When Wise Driver Travels
It's a wise father who arrives at
his destination with the original
number of children that filled up
the family flivver when the trip
started. Bill Brown. Friend Wife
and their four youngsters, rein
forced by enough lunch to feed a
ycung army, left for an outing last
Sunday. Pa and Ma sat in the
front seat and the' little Brownies
occupied the rear. They had gone
about a mile when Baby Bobby
was reported to be among the
missing. The boy had opened the
door and fallen out of. the ma
chine. Luckily, he wasn't injured,
either by the fall or other auto
mobiles, having landed in a pool
where he was enjoying himself
when the family located him.
Brown thus learned one of'the les
sons which should be remembered
by family men who go on auto
trips, i. e., that It is better to have
Friend Wife a back seat driver
than to be minus a baby.
department of commerce reports.
. Sales of automobiles' in the Uni
ted States for replacement totaled
sl,850,838or 47 per cent of the
consumption in-1926. Nearly ev
ery other automobile sold in the
United States replaced one dis
carded. Replacements in Canada in 19 26
accounted one-fifth of the total
sales or about 21 per cent less
than half that of the United Stafes.
The total replacement sales were
30,285, while the increase in reg
istration of automobiles was 11-,-956
units. . ' , v
FOR GREATER' SAFETY '
Last year 8,821 j automobile
drivers . were taken from the 'roads
of Connecticut far varying periods
because- of violation of the law.
This was an increase of nearly 400
I suspensions over 1925. . This state
J U tuakinK a determined effort to
reduce motor vehicle accidents by
j eliminating dangerous drivers.
Motor Chat.
Forty Per Cent of Cars
Replacements, Reported
WASHINGTON Two out of ev
ery five cars, or 40 per cent of
world production, were used to re
place old automobiles last year,
Irving Jl. Taylor, assistant chief
of the automotive division of the
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