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...last two decades, the whole country has learned to be proud of the School Safety Patrol. Sponsored by the Automobile Association of America, it really got going in 1922, when President Charles Hayes of the Chicago Motor Club started a program in his home city, eventually persuaded the A.A.A. to back it on a nationwide basis. Today some 500,000 schoolchildren are members, and U.S. motorists have long since grown used to seeing the white Sam Browne belts and shiny badges glistening at school crossings. Largely because of the patrol's work, accidents involving schoolchildren have dropped...
Fifteen minutes later a Metropolitan Police motor launche made its way up the river, hauled the body aboard with boathooks, and started down toward Boston again...
...MOTOR SCOOTERS were rushed into production in East Germany to compete with West German models made by ex-Aircraft Designer Messerschmitt, but have proved to be flops. First three slapped together for the East Zone May Day celebration all broke down within a few hundred yards on their initial test runs, were dropped from the big parade...
Short Tractor. The smallest truck trac tor on the market (96 in. from bumper to back of cab) is rolling off production lines at the White Motor Co. in Cleve land. By canting the 200 h.p. diesel engine 20° to the right, White engineers have saved more than a foot of space, which can be used for cargo. Thus the new tractor can haul a 35-ft. trailer and still keep within the 45-ft. overall limit set by most states. Price of the new tractor...
...Narrow but safe," breathed a relieved Yoshida supporter. Having again proved himself the most powerful man in Japan, Yoshida climbed into his black Chrysler to motor back to his Oiso retreat, there to take off his wing collar and brown business suit, slip into a comfortable kimono and white tabi, and contemplate his forthcoming trip to the U.S. and Europe...