Word: bulletproofing
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...busboys, with an extra $1 each for winning smiles). Reputed to be a soft touch for any & all hard-luck stories, he favors midnight blue shirts with white silk ties, drives a black Lincoln limousine equipped with siren, white bearskin rug, New York license plate (MH 1) and bulletproof glass (gift of a former gangster acquaintance). Hollywood also reveres Hellinger for his seemingly inexhaustible stock of excellent liquor, his fondness for intricate practical jokes and his small superstitions...
...steelshell which can be slipped over an ordinary auto, making it bulletproof...
...with his rugged daughter; that he works at any hour of the day & night; that he prefers his office in the Storaya Ploshad to his offices in the Kremlin; that he rests up three days a week in the country house where Lenin died; that he travels in a bulletproof automobile...
Inside police lines at the train platform, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson led Cabinet members aboard Franklin Roosevelt's car. The rain came down harder. The big, black automobile with bulletproof windows moved up beside the train, with the President's grandson, five-year-old Johnnie Boettiger, wriggling excitedly beside the driver...
...Parade. Then the long trek began. The President's car moved at 25 m.p.h., with four Secret Service men on the running boards. The top was down, but the bulletproof glass sides up, beside the President. His car was flanked on each side by six sidecar motorcycles, and followed by three cars loaded with burly Secret Servicemen, eyes on the second-story windows, hands on guns. The cavalcade passed through Queens to The Bronx, from The Bronx to Harlem, from Harlem to the canyons of Manhattan, and down Broadway. All along the 51-mile route were crowds, heads covered...