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Escape. In Marion, Ohio, a pheasant flew through Motorist Fred Maag's windshield, a bee darted through the opening, Maag overturned the car while fighting off the bee. Maag climbed out of the wreckage uncut, unscratched, unstung...
Politesse. In Chicago, Gordon Sheehe (of Northwestern University's famed Traffic Safety Institute), mindful of the strain of wartime living, offered a new precept for traffic cops: "Officers must learn to disregard remarks made by the motorist due to his upset condition, must avoid argument and keep their tempers under control...
...their first day of business, in for repair came a flying boat so large that its nose stuck out in the street. A passing motorist crashed into it, immediately threatened suit. Grumman and Swirbul retired to the corner dog wagon, there ate hamburgers moodily, brooding on the unprofitable aspects of a business launched with a legal action. But after the second cup of coffee they decided to stick. The plaintiff dropped his suit when the partners offered to repair his car free. Next step was to saw off the amphibian's tail, repair it, reattach the amputated section...
This time, when Leon Henderson called the three gallons for the nonessential motorist "a damned sight more than he's entitled to," nobody laughed. The song faded from the heart, Pollyannery from the head. Now the citizenry learned again the truth about total war: no matter how bad the experts say things are going to be, they turn out worse...
...Capone-model bootleg rings have been uncovered. Most bootleggers are independent operators from petty rackets (like pinball machines), race tracks, dance-halls; many are once-legitimate tire dealers. Whether in Maine or Utah the procedure is the same: the motorist makes contact through his own filling station, is shunted into a cozy nearby bar to haggle price and delivery with the bootlegger or his agent. Some tires are stolen. Others come from pre-Pearl Harbor stocks of crooked dealers who did not list them on OPA's inventory forms, hid them in cellars, attics or backwoods garages. Prices...