Word: hikers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch-hiker who had been perched on the stern jumped off, fled. Driver Poulter cheerfully estimated that it would take several days to get the monster rolling again, looked forward to the vast stretches of the Antarctic snow fields, where there would be plenty of room to maneuver...
...plashy banks of the Housatonic River in northern Connecticut one morning last week, two fishermen looked up with scowls as a hiker with a rucksack and a brown duffle shaped like an oversized golf bag broke through the woods with a noise loud enough to scare every trout within 50 yd. Abashed, the hiker tiptoed downstream, dropped his burden in a small clearing. While the two fishermen watched, first in irritation then in amazement, he took a red rubbery roll of cloth and a heap of small sticks from his duffle, put the sticks together in a simple frame, shoved...
Thus lined up was a perfect example of a legal situation familiar in every state. Many a motorist has refused a ride to a hitch-hiker for fear of being liable for damages which might occur to him. Many another driver whose guests have been hurt has colluded with them to make the insurance company pay. Drivers with stricter codes of behavior have often been saddled by suits from erstwhile friends. Publicized more than most such cases be cause of the prominence of its participants, the final decision in the McCann-Hoffman suit last week illuminated the status and trend...
...believe that Hearst as an ally of any politician is a form of political suicide," declared one of Alf Landon's supporters, wise old William Allen White of Emporia last month. "Hearst is a hitch-hiker on the Landon bandwagon. Sooner or later Landon will have to throw him off or feel Hearst's gun in his ribs. For his own good luck-the sooner the better...
...Admired Hiker Sears...