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...even noisier. One jungle-hot afternoon a weathered Model T lurched down the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue with a rattle and a clatter that Calvin Coolidge, 50 yards away in the White House, might easily have heard. Its hood was propped open to keep the motor cool, its rear end listed to one side under an uneven burden of piled-up duffle in the back seat, and its muffler was all too obviously missing. A sweating cop whistled the flivver to a stop, and out popped Wayne Morse. Characteristically, Mrs. Morse stayed in the car and said nothing...
...three-month-long forum on what to do about the Appia, Rome's Giornale d'ltalia decided that public opinion is so diverse "as to embarrass anyone who wants to draw active and positive conclusions." Whizzing along the highroad of a new 20th century Renaissance in their motor scooters and Alfa Romeos, the great mass of Italians seemed quite content to let the old Via Appia find its own way into the future as it had out of the past. "We too are making history," said one Roman, "and who knows-maybe our descendants will find the ruins...
After studying under Marks, Davis worked in automotive engineering for the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company and did war work in his field for the British War Office and for the United States...
Said the court: "No [interstate carrier's] certificate is to be revoked, suspended or changed until after a hearing and a finding [by the Interstate Commerce Commission]. Such a state suspension of interstate transportation . . . would conflict with the Federal Motor Carrier Act which is the supreme law of the land ..." The only thing a state may do, said the court, is appeal...
Letter of the Law. In Chatham, England, deciding to play it safe after downing three pints of beer at a local pub, Charles Spinner pushed his motor bike home instead of riding it, was fined $14 anyway and had his license suspended for a year for "being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle...