Word: drivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to fix up his machine by throwing out four of its most important cogs-Messrs Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall, George Addes-John L. Lewis sent Mechanics Murray and Hillman to Detroit to interfere. There they persuaded Mr. Martin to let them get up on the driver's seat, one on each side of him, to watch his driving (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, having steered U. A. W. into a garage, in privacy behind closed doors they effected the repair most needed to make it run again: put back the four vital parts Mr. Martin...
...last year's Yardling backfield, Gardella showed Saturday against Cornell that he was the top-ranking Crimson defensive back. He has been out of three days practice this week with a cold but returned yesterday to try out his new wing position. A shifty, hard-driver runner, he is slated to give Torby Macdonald more competition than the "Flash" has encountered...
...case. For the Rules Committee, with power of life & death over much legislation (unless by petition the House membership calls bills out of it to the floor), is now composed of ten Democrats, four Republicans. Of the Democrats, six were non-New Dealers until the defeat of Representative Driver of Arkansas and now of New York's O'Connor. With Republican aid the six non-New Dealers have blockaded Administration measures, notably the Wages-&-Hours Bill. A chair-man far more amenable than John O'Connor would be the next man in line by seniority: Chicago...
Last week, as Princeton and other U. S. seminaries were opening, evidence could be found that U. S. theologians are beginning to think about getting back in the driver's seat. True, U. S. churches were not agonizing in public over their beliefs. But important seminarians averred that young men were taking a new interest in theological problems, are this year showing that interest by attending seminaries in larger numbers than before...
...Because the marble-smooth salt in the early morning is marble cold, cools friction-heated tires, lessens a driver's greatest fear: blowouts. Meteorologists also claim that a greater speed can be attained in the rare air of Bonneville (4,300 feet above sea level). A speed of 345 m.p.h. at Bonneville would be only 293 m.p.h. at sea level...