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...Sudan and British East Africa (Malakal, Kampala, Kisumu) to moor their flying boats, crocodiles went for the buoys with enthusiasm, punctured and sank them. Last week, Imperial's engineers in London completed designs for a crocodile-proof buoy-a strong steel cylinder buffered with a semipneumatic fender impervious to tropic teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tropic Teeth | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...undergraduate came out of the Indoor Athletic Building recently, leaped into his Ford, and started to drive merrily away, only to become entangled in the fender of a cuddly Plymouth just ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELLIOT DOFFS PROFESSORIAL DIGNITY TO SEPARATE CARS | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...Street Traffic Reseach, stuck his head out from one of the driving sides--it didn't seem to matter which one--and invited the Vagabond to come for a ride to Newton High School where juvenile drivers were to be given the latest pointers on how to play wrinkle-fender. "Four boys," said Mr. Yordan, "and four girls make up my two classes." Four girls, huh? Without further ado, the Vagabond inhaled vigorously and stepped into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...brother hissed a "Beat it," out of the side of his mouth without missing a bar of the hymn. The guy beat it, too. So I never was saved. But if it ever happened I'd like Ironside to be in on it. He lays it solid. ROBERT FENDER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...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 like the other guy is crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bumpless Busser | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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