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Nowhere in the U.S., for love or money, could a motorist buy a new tire this week. Wartime rationing had begun...
Plea. In Frankfort, Ind., a motorist wrote to the License Bureau, confessed he had lied on his application in saying that he had had a license before, begged: "I am going to leave this old world one of these days and I want the License Bureau of Frankfort and everyone in the State of Indiana to forgive...
Helpful. In Kansas City, a friendly motorist gave a push to a stalled car, pushed it in front of a freight train...
...miles east of the field, a motorist saw the horrible finish. The big ship came out of the overcast in a long glide. It never leveled out. With a terrific roar it struck the ground in an open field, smashed into a deep ditch, lumbered out of it, burst into bright fire...
...motorist found the plane's pilot lying on the grass, in front of the wreck. He was screaming, "Get them out." It was too late. The wreckage was a gasoline-fired furnace. Not until six hours later had the last flames died away. Later Captain Bates explained the strange casualty that had ended a period of two years and nine months of fatality-free operation by Northwest. On the way down the ship had picked up ice. It did not appear dangerously heavy, but he could not pull the DC-3 out of its glide...