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...With automobile fatalities running at an annual rate of [almost] 40,000, General Motors comes up with a 260-h.p. motor in its 1955 models. For what purpose?-so the pinheaded, slaphappy . . . drivers can have bigger and gorier smashups? The U.S. needs high-powered automobiles like it needs a hole in the head...
Manners' twice-weekly chore with the big clock was a simple matter of starting the motor that winds its huge weights into place. As he worked away inside the tower, hurrying Londoners in the crowded Strand below glanced up as usual for a reassuring look at the great white dial that guided their daily scurrying. Auto horns blared their impatience at a moment's delay, exhaust pipes splattered with selfimportance, old friends called out greetings, and tardy law clerks beat sharp tattoos on the pavements with hurrying heels. In the cacophony that makes a great city...
Says Desmond: "The melody is just a vehicle. It's like an old Ford with a new Cadillac motor...
Died. Wilbur Shaw, 51, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, three-time winner of the 500-mile Indianapolis Memorial Day race; in a private-plane crash; at Peterson, Ind. Born near Indianapolis, Racer Shaw learned his trade on dirt tracks, surprised veteran drivers by finishing fourth in his first Indianapolis race, when he was 25. Besides his three Indianapolis firsts (1937, 1939, 1940), he also got three seconds, a fourth and a seventh in his 15 years of big-time racing. Legend had it that he was indestructible. He suffered a skull fracture, broken ribs and smashed vertebrae...
FEDERAL HIGHWAY PROGRAM to spend $101 billion over the next ten years may be financed without levying new taxes. Financing experts have just completed a study showing that motor-vehicle mileage is increasing so fast that revenues from current taxes (gasoline, cars, equipment) will go up $350 million a year, enough to pay the interest and amortization on $5 billion worth of highway bonds each year...