Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Virginian aristocrat, whose natural ability and profession of the law drove him against his inclinations into public life, had the same background, the same attitude as Washington, but a "far wider" range of intellectual and esthetic interests. A fine figure of a man (his sandy hair was six feet two inches from the ground) and brave, but no soldier, he served the Revolution in Congress and as Governor of Virginia. When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose...
...Ernest R. ("Pop") Haselwood looked like a good bet against the field. Bus Transportation, McGraw-Hill trade journal, was tabulating returns in its contest, not to be decided until late this year, to discover who is the safest bus driver in the U. S. Owen Meredith of Enid. Okla. drove 976,800 miles without scratching a fender. Ancel Mistier of Sedalia, Mo. turned up with a no-accident record of 950,000 miles. But "Pop" Haselwood of Chappell, Neb. in 20 years had driven 1,772,651 miles without a ''chargeable" accident. Driver Haselwood's formula: "Drive...
...Haselwood, 44. started out as a Northwest farmer and lumberjack, bought a Ford in 1916, put it in tip-top shape, ran a one-man, one-car busline. After two years he sold out, drove for a half-dozen bus companies. Since 1929 he has driven for Omaha's Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 21g-mile run between North Platte. Neb. and Cheyenne. Wyo.. one way or the other, six days a week. When passing an oncoming car he sights the road edge over his radiator cap. gets his right-hand tires on the brink...
...stolid driver. There are five other "Pops" in his division. Most Interstate drivers look like wrestlers because the company's minimum weight limit is 160 Ib. Haselwood is just over the line with 164. He is married, childless, makes about $225 per month. The one time he ever drove "like hell" was when a woman in his bus bore a baby...
First automobile radio on record was built in 1922 by one William Lear of Quincy, Ill., who sold it to a doctor from Kahoka, Mo. The doctor drove all the way to Los Angeles and back without tuning in anything, later found that the power plug had been put in backwards. First regular factory production did not come until 1927, long after cabinet sets had squealed their way permanently into the U. S. Home. Through 1927 a modest score per day were built by a little concern now a subsidiary of Philco Radio & Television Corp., biggest U. S. radio makers...