Word: motorists
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Prince Frederick, Md., Jack Wildstein, motorist, met a bull on the highway, stopped politely. Impolite, the bull charged the car, butted it 15 ft. backwards. Jack Wildstein turned his car around, drove away...
What many a through motorist, delayed by local traffic, has long wished for, lay behind Bills introduced in the New York legislature last week to incorporate New York & New England Motorways Corp. Proposed was a high-speed, four-track toll boulevard between New York City's northern rim and New Haven, Conn. (85 mi.). Two hundred million dollars private capital would construct, maintain and police the project. All crossroads would be bridged over. The centre roadways, divided by a metal fence, would have a minimum speed limit of 35 m. p. h. Slower traffic would move on the outer lanes...
...Many a motorist has been warned against picking up unknown characters along the road. Wisconsin first passed a law making it an offense not only for a hiker to solicit a hitch but for a motorist to pick him up. Other states with laws aimed only at the hitchhiker: Maine, New Jersey, Minnesota, District of Columbia. Athens, Ga., passed a municipal ordinance to prevent University of Georgia students from begging rides into Atlanta...
...nobodies, the most prominent being Sir Alfred Butt, theatrical producer, and Sir Newton J. Moore, who twice upon a time was Premier of the province of Western Australia. Among the thousands who clipped and signed coupons enrolling them as "Empire Crusaders" was Sir Henry Segrave. world's fastest motorist. First ty coon to join the founders of the party was Sir Herbert Austin, the "Ford of Britain,'' who sees in the proposed high tariff wall his best defence against competition from the original Henry Ford...
...district attorney urged his hearers against acting as the masters of the public instead of as their servants. The officer who bullies motorist is prejudicing a future junior against the poli may testify before him. In Whalen's words, "he is not sell Police Department to the publi...