FDR: “A car with many cylinders can keep running in spite of plenty of…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 1935

A car with many cylinders can keep running in spite of plenty of carbon— but it knocks.

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Democratic · New York

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Reply to Letter from Roy W. Howard

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FDR: “A car with many cylinders can keep running in spite of plenty of carbon— but it knocks.”