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Into an auto dump at Bournemouth, England, one day last month drove a motorist looking for a spring for his automobile. After three hours' search he discovered one the right size, returned to his car to find that another spare-part hunter had dismantled his engine looking for a flywheel...
...special session to vote some of the State's widely advertised $25,000,000 surplus into a pump-priming building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business-reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved in this 25? gadget which cost the State only 12½?, Hoosiers hated...
Near Troy, N. Y., a WPA foreman saw a motorist drive smack into a road construction project. The foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimpy-haired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big shot...
Highways. Admiral Horthy, realizing that in Hungary the motorist must horn his way through every village at the speed of its cows and chickens, has slated a concrete speedway program modeled on Adolf Hitler's, tied it to Hungarian Rearmament, since a modern army does not march on its stomach but rides on its tires...
...already so heavily taxed that last year 8½% of the national revenue was taken directly from automotive Britons as such. Sir John soaked them further last week by raising the tax on gasoline from eight pence (16?) per gallon to ninepence (18?) Including the new tax, the British motorist will now pay about 39? for an imperial gallon of gas-equivalent to about 35½for what U. S. citizens call a gallon. Immediately this week British omnibus companies raised their fares, so that Sir John upped gasoline tax really "soaked everybody...