Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Injured in motor crashes were: Beverly Macfadden, daughter of Publisher Bernarr Macfadden; Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr. of Georgia. Near Dublin, Ga., Governor Russell was hurled through the windshield of his car, lost four teeth...
...Fort Worth, Texas, Mrs. F. H. Earle wrecked her automobile. The windshield shattered, cut off the tip of her nose. Minus the tip she was rushed to the hospital. A woman at the scene of the accident found the nose tip, took it to the hospital, physicians grafted it back on Mrs. F. H. Earle...
...circling madly, looking for an exit. As it jounced across fairways and putting greens, the golfers of Elyria swarmed toward it, yelling imprecations, picking up things to throw. Some threw rocks, some threw golf balls. Then they began throwing putters, irons, wooden clubs. The car's windshield was smashed. Its body clattered under the fire. Suddenly one of its occupants was pitched out and the automobile made back for the shrubbery, vanished up a lane while a desperate defender in the rear seat fired away with a revolver...
Meantime, in Oklahoma City it was announced that impecunious Alfalfa Bill's campaign would be financed by selling trinkets which politicians usually give away-photographs, windshield stickers, campaign hats, "ladies' handy pocket mirrors...
...that at the Show a whole floor was devoted to specialties. It would take a car a block long to carry everything that was offered to refine the pleasure of motoring. There were windproof matches, cigaret lighters, electric clocks, radio outlets, pneumatic foot rests, fancy metal tire covers, heated windshield wipers, sunvisors. There was an ejector spring that opens the door at a touch on the handle. More costly was a shock absorber system operated from the dash which lets the driver adjust his car to the roughness of the road (called "ride control," featured on Buick, Graham-Paige, Oldsmobile...