Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money for themselves; e.g., Mrs. Hopper insists on her husband's wearing elegant sports clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch, though he complains that he doesn't "want to look like a damned hero." And when they bought their 1954 Buick, Hopper had the perfectly good green-tinted glass windshield and windows replaced with clear glass, at a cost of $160. The cost did not matter where his eyewitnessing was concerned; he wanted to look out at an untinted America...
...more to settle than they did five years ago. A smashed fender that once could be replaced by a simple, curved piece of metal now involves large molded panels with sculptured lights. The bumper that cost $5 in 1940 now costs $20. In the good old days of divided windshields, the company could put in a new unit for $25. Adjusters expect the 1957 wraparound type will cost around $125. State Farm Vice President Thomas Morrill says that windshield replacements account for about 50% of claims filed under comprehensive policies, adds: "Many people, as soon as they get a little...
...fighter off Long Island. He put the airplane into a dive, speeded up to 880 m.p.h. and fired a four-second burst (about 70 rounds). Then he went into a steeper dive and fired another burst. As the last bullets left his guns, something struck and shattered his windshield. Pilot Attridge thought he had run down a bird. He headed for the Grumman base at Peconic River, but before he got there, his engine died. He crash-landed half a mile short of the field and broke a leg and three vertebrae...
Examination of the airplane proved that Pilot Attridge had hit no bird; he had overtaken and run down the fire from his own guns. A nonexplosive 20-mm. bullet (used in practice) had gone through his windshield. Another had hit the engine, a third had punctured the nose. If the projectiles had been explosive, Pilot Attridge would not have got home alive...
According to Ready, the Cambridge police leave no visible sign that they have ticketed a Massachusetts car. Whereas they leave the actual ticket under the windshield wiper of an out-of-state car, they merely take down the license plate number of a Massachusetts resident. The police then check with the Registry of Motor Vehicles to find out who owns the car, and send him his summons through the mail...