Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In several recent issues you have given accounts of people struck by lightning on the golf course or other places in the open [TIME, Aug. 15, 22]. Are there records of automobiles ever having been struck by lightning, and does the movement of the car affect its chances of being hit? What danger would there be to the occupants? I think the answer to this question might be of general interest...
...automobiles struck by lightning are rare. Says an international authority on thunderstorms, Sir George Clarke Simpson, Director of the British Meteorological Office, people riding in an automobile with an all-steel top are practically immune from lightning, even though the automobile itself may be struck. The movement of the car does not affect its chances of being hit. Safe rule in a thunderstorm: drive slowly...
Fifty-eight hours after the German Army, Dictator Hitler entered Czechoslovakia under a drizzling rain this week. Every German car on this road which might possibly have contained the Führer had been wildly cheered by Sudetens for hours beforehand, and when Adolf Hitler finally reached Eger, "The Sudeten Capital," its throngs were both hoarse and hysterical. It was less than seven months since Austrians had similarly welcomed "our Deliverer," and the Führer seemed much moved as he made what was for him an exceptionally humble speech: "In this hour I want to thank the Almighty...
...others soon steered the auto industry into less horse-conscious ways. Next year Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds had patents, year after that Elwood Haynes and the Apperson brothers joined the motorcade. Sketchily financed at the start, the Duryea car that won the first U.S. automobile race (Chicago, 1895) and led the parade for several years with Barnum's circus, never burned up the roads in a business way. Duryea was for simplification, economy. One model had only three wheels, another had all the functions of steering, braking, gear shifting, spark control and acceleration combined in a single...
When 60-year-old Tap Dancer Bill Robinson's new sedan was almost hit by 21-year-old Footballer Paul Moffat's car in Hollywood, there was an angry altercation, then blows. Tap Dancer Robinson clipped Footballer Moffat over the head with a revolver. Moffat went to the hospital with four gashes in his scalp. Robinson went to jail, was freed an hour later...