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...airports to impose restrictions that cut into the jets' payload. But despite all the uproar, the sound suppressors that every jet uses cut their noise level to that of a DC-7, makes the noise argument seem as dated as the early objections to the noise of the horseless carriage...
Some 20,000 U.S. drivers own antique or classic cars, and their number is growing fast. The Horseless Carriage Club, for owners of cars produced prior to 1916, has jumped from 350 members in 1944 to 7,500 today. The Classic Car Club, for owners of fancy cars of 1925-42 vintage (mostly Packard Eights and Twelves), counts 1,700 members, will add 300 this year. The aged-auto fad has claimed many VIPs. Among them: Dwight Eisenhower, who used to enjoy relaxing in his mother-in-law's high, stubby 1914 Rauch & Lang Electric until it was sent...
...Gene Autry, who in his western film fare for kiddies regularly shoots or slugs it out successfully with mustached villains, became the target of a $10,000 damage suit. A clock salesman accused Gene of beating him up "wantonly, maliciously and outrageously" after a street-corner discussion involving their horseless carriages...
...prizes for the planting of trees, was eventually credited with having inspired the planting of 50 million. It was the guiding spirit behind Captain Bligh's famous trip on the Bounty, gave him a gold medal for his report on the care of breadfruit trees. It inspired a horseless carriage (its fuel: gunpowder) the design of the first really practical lifeboat. Under the presidency of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, it set up London's first two public lavatories ("Public Waiting-Rooms"), established the Royal College of Music. Through its encouragement of the tinning industry, it helped...
When Joseph I. Greenwell began practice in his home county, he had to be a horse & buggy doctor. It was 1900; no horseless carriage had yet been seen around New Haven, Ky., nestled in the valley of a river picturesquely named Salt Rolling Fork, and if it had, it could not have penetrated the surrounding hills...