Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives in the U. S. and has driven a car for years without having ever sounded his horn is either a bit absent-minded or he is not fit to drive a car. Many many fatal accidents have occurred because no warning was given. It is better to annoy a pedestrian or motorist than to kill...
...Geers was only one of many who drove for more than 50 years. Trotting drivers ordinarily start as stable boys, work slowly upward through the stages of being grooms, second-trainers, and finally trainer-drivers with public stables of their own. Most good drivers train the horses which they drive. They wear not the owner's colors but their own. A trainer usually gets $100 per month for each horse in his stable, clear of all operating expenses; gets no additional salary for driving. Sunburned, grizzled, dressed in narrow whipcord trousers, low boots, high caps and light silk jackets...
...confect such a series as The First Auto (see cut), in which a swank couple in duster and goggles buy a two-cylinder Pope-Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship...
Last week a ten-year legislative drive to put interstate bus & truck traffic under Federal control came to a successful conclusion when Congress finally passed and sent to President Roosevelt its first Motor Carrier Act. Sponsored by Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman, this new law, effective Oct. 1, provides for drastic motor carrier regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission on Rates, Routes, Safety, Wages, Hours of Labor, Financial Responsibility and the issuance of securities over...
Early last week, a tall dour man with dark glasses appeared at Dr. Bauer's Ann Arbor hotel, asked him for a lift in his automobile, forced Dr. Bauer to drive to a lonely Chicago alley. There the stranger bound Dr. Bauer's feet & hands, deliberately castrated him with a penknife. Driving the car slowly into a Chicago garage, the tall, dour man jumped out, fled into darkness. In the car the garagemen found Dr. Bauer bleeding to death...