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Word: feblowicz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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About a year ago Herr Semi Feblowicz, smart Berlin lawyer, drove his automobile along slippery Berlin streets, skidded, smashed into another car, ran up an 80-mark repair bill at a garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Berlin Beaten | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...Lawyer Feblowicz, irked at his 80-mark repair bill for an accident that was neither his fault nor that of the other car. learned from scientific friends that a new type of asphalt paving has been perfected which is guaranteed antiskid. None of it has been laid in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Berlin Beaten | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...Lawyer Feblowicz assembled his friends, summoned chemists, engineers, traffic policemen, asphalt manufacturers, chauffeurs, sued the municipality of Berlin for 80 marks ($19). Object of the case was to force the city to lay anti-skid paving in its streets. Since the suit was for less than 100 marks, no appeal is possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Berlin Beaten | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...months the financially strapped city fathers fought the case in & out of court. Last week the decision and 80 marks in cash went to Lawyer Feblowicz, the court holding that since anti-skid paving exists, the city is responsible for skidding accidents where reckless driving cannot be proven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Berlin Beaten | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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