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...this time he planned his attack in advance, like a field marshal leading his troops into battle. Flanked on one side by a brick gatepost and on the other by the automobile driver the patrolman closed in. For a moment it looked as if the calf would make a brake stand, but realizing that he was outnumbered three to one, and overwhelmed by this careful planning, the animal surrendered without a bawl. Ten minutes later the calf was once more safely ensconced in the Packing Company's truck, on his way to become "roast prime ribs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miniature Rodeo Staged by City Policeman in Front of Yard Gate---Cop Bests Bawling Calf | 1/16/1934 | See Source »

...President will drive not a General Motors' Pontiac roadster, as reported, but a Chrysler-built De Soto. A "special job," this roadster was so contrived that it may be entirely operated by hand. Before his election Mr. Roosevelt had a Ford roadster equipped with hand gadgets for brake and clutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hot Oil | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

Quiet, reserved Assistant Editor Draper acted as a sort of brake on his paper's news organization. He abhors sensationalism almost as much as he hated the 18th Amendment and the shabbier aspects of professional sport. Another Draper taboo was profusion of "features" in the news columns. But it was he who negotiated with Calvin Coolidge to write a daily editorial for the Herald Tribune's front page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: New Digester | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...into place just abaft the cabin door. A fuselage tail, with control surfaces, is hooked onto the coupe's bustle-like stern (see cut). The driver (now a pilot) steps on the same gas throttle as before, steers with the same steering wheel, prods the same foot-brake, kites down the runway, climbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Gee-Bee | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Cadillac V16 production will be limited to 400 cars, each bearing a plate with its number and the owner's name. Cadillacs and La Salles bear distinctive labels in the upper left-hand corner of their sloping- radiators and have vacuum brake-boosters, last year available only on the two big Cadillacs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business, Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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