Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, failed to see the lowered gates and red lanterns at an East Boston railroad crossing. Splintering through the gates, John, at the wheel, swerved just in time to wedge his Plymouth coupe between a speeding train and a gate post. While moppets fought for the horn, headlights, windshield wiper of the wrecked car, Brothers John & James pronounced themselves unhurt. Next day Massachusetts' Registrar of Motor Vehicles Frank A. Goodwin exonerated Brother John...
...sales tax tokens, proceeded to roll the ivories and completely demoralize traffic. Elmers capered about in diapers, smocks, underwear and funny faces blowing bugles, shooting blank pistols, tooting whistles, ringing bells, hooting sirens, beating tin cans. Prime trick was to stop a motorist, "inspect" his brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, then lift his hood and close the petcock on his gas line so that when released he would proceed only a few yards before the car stopped for good. Saloons ran all night long, bartenders were far too busy to prepare anything more complicated than rye-&-ginger ale. Most widespread...
...careening and rolling down a bank, battering and smashing its occupants every inch of the way. can wrap itself so thoroughly around a tree that front and rear bumpers interlock, requiring an acetylene torch to cut them apart. ... A leg or arm stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost...
...hero is a U. S. oil salesman in China, and its message, only mildly impaired by a self-contradictory sequence timidly tacked to the story's end, is one that might make an attendant in a highway service station think twice before he scrubs a client's windshield...
...Along a blocked-off concrete boulevard in the outskirts of Los Angeles raced two motorcycle policemen, followed by an Auburn speedster with a streamlined windshield fastened to the rear. Close behind was a bearded man on a bicycle, his tremendous legs pumping like pistons. Zipping along in the vacuum of the Auburn's wake, the bearded bicyclist hit 75, 80, 85 m. p. h. The motorcycle officers dropped out at 85. Auburn and bicyclist shot over the finish line at 90 m. p. h., were doing 100 m. p. h. before they slowed down. An A. A. A. official...