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Sirs: While reading your very interesting article on Miller McClintock and his efforts to reduce traffic accidents (TIME, Aug. 3), I was very much surprised to learn that the State of Indi ana required 20 hours of driving instruction in high schools as a prerequisite for application for an operator's permit. I was 17 years old when I took out my first permit in any State. That was in the spring of 1935 in Fort Wayne, Ind. Because I was under 1 8 it was necessary for my father to sign my application with me. While he went...
...thought I looked like a German-those Barcelona radicals have an intense hatred of all Germans and Italians. They won't let either German or Italian warships into Barcelona inner harbor, whereas any British or French vessel can go alongside the docks." Two days later California Dancer Florence Miller of a Canadian vaudeville troupe known as The Tony Wine Com-pany which has been playing Catalonia, got out of Barcelona after all members of the company had been "conscripted" by the radical militia and put to work giving five shows a day for militiamen with the threat that anyone...
...more, with a total property loss of some $1,600,000,000. One of the first to see that this carnage and waste on the highways was not due to a flock of local factors but to a few basic inefficiencies was a young Leland Stanford graduate named Miller McClintock...
Making traffic control the subject of his thesis at Harvard in 1924, red-headed Miller McClintock became the first man ever awarded a doctorate in traffic. Two years later, when Studebaker Corp. offered to finance a Harvard traffic bureau, Dr. McClintock was put in charge. Supported now by the Automobile Manufacturers Association, the Bureau and its chief are recognized as the No. 1 U. S. authority on traffic control, have produced a complete new theory of highway troubles. Says Dr. McClintock: "If we could apply all we know, we could eliminate 98% of all accidents, practically all congestion...
...tightest little monopolies in the U. S. is Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. It has even been sued, by Zack Miller's 101 Ranch when THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH grabbed off Tom Mix, for conspiracy in restraint of trade. Last week the Circus was again involved with the law, not for conspiracy in restraint of trade, but for conspiracy "against the peace and dignity of the U. S." in the form of income tax frauds. What was more, the U. S. charged, the frauds had been carried out with a showmanship which would have done credit...