Word: drivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes economical use of local actors, notably 300 students of Repton School who acted as extras during their vacation. Besides Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips employs only two performers who are likely to mean much in Hollywood. One is Terry Kilburn, 12-year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term contract to MGM, which hopes to make him a second Freddie Bartholomew. The other is Greer Garson...
...Onset (Mass.) Fire Department: the 130-mile outboard motorboat race down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City; in 3 hr., 11 min., 22 sec.; breaking the record for Class B boats (16-h.p. motors, 100-lb. hulls); and setting another record by becoming the first driver to win the race twice...
Schemer von Papen was more success ful in putting the skids under the German Republic. One of the last of the Republic's Chancellors, he wanted to get back into the driver's seat. With Junker sup port, he helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...
...there were 5,000,000 radio-equipped automobiles. The three main arguments against auto-radios are that they divert the driver's attention from the road, prevent him from hearing warning signals, preoccupy him with tuning manipulation. But four counterarguments for auto-radios were found: they 1) induce slower driving; 2) break the monotony of extended or night driving, prevent drowsiness, promote attention, interest, alertness; 3) soothe motorists during extended traffic jams; 4) silence backseat driving. Motor-vehicle commissioners in 38 States failed to find any accidents directly attributable to auto-radios...
...inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme was a fair the size of the Century of Progress. But with the Magnificent Whalen in the driver's seat and a flashy theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow," the budget mushroomed threefold...