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Pag</p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">The Economic Position of Motor Transport</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>Motor-Vehicle Economy and Mobility as Realized in the Truck and the Bus</p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd"></p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Driving the Motor Car with a Pendulum: The Latest Surprise of the Ingenious Inventor Constantinesco of Wave-Power Fame</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p></p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd">S. W. Clatworthy</p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Our Abrams Investigation--IV</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>Odds and Ends Gathered from an Avalanche of Correspondence and Several Interviews</p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd">Austin C. 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