Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vehicle inspection in this state is left up to approved gas stations; station attendants drive the cars around a bit, fiddle with the lights, pump the brake pedal a few times, and pass or fail the car as they will. There are no set stations will sell a sticker to any regular customer who has the fifty cents. Some garages really check over cars. Many don't bother...
...emergency. When he presents the budget next month, Abbott is expected to maintain revenues well in excess of need (1951-52 estimates: $3.58 billion) and thus take more money out of circulation. He may also reinvoke the compulsory savings scheme used in World War II. Only if the fiscal brake fails will wage and price controls be tried...
...first to sponsor excursion tours to the South via its "True Winter Route"*. And the folk hero of all U.S. railroading rose from the wreck near Grenada, Miss. in 1900, where Illinois Central Engineer John Luther ("Casey") Jones died with one hand on the brake, the other on the throttle...
...which eliminates 80% of the pushing & pulling normally done by the driver, makes it possible to park at the curb with one finger on the wheel. ¶New shock absorbers which take the bumps out of the roughest ride. ¶Forced air cooling that cuts the wear & tear on brake linings. ¶A peppy new torque converter transmission, as good as Buick's Dynaflow or Oldsmobile's Hydra-Matic...
Station Foreman George Buckland took a flying leap into the cab, pulled hard on the air brake. The little train slowed down, came to rest just where it should, at the end of the Seven Sisters platform. Time: 10:21 on the dot. Down the snow-covered track from Palace Gates came panting Driver Playle and his fireman. They had made the 2% miles in 16 minutes. At Seven Sisters a lone passenger got in. The little train, once more under human control, pulled out for the return trip to Palace Gates...