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Assured that Henry Ford had not yet arrived, and that citizens' cars could not be parked there, Motorist Franke banged decorously away, returned after a while and again toured the grounds, again missed Mr. Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Like a Dream | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Psychological principles must be applied to highway design in order to produce roads on which "the motorist will unconsciously react safely rather than unsafely," Charles M. Noble, Assistant Engineer of the Port of New York Authority told a group of graduate students at the Street Traffic Research Bureau yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Engineer Describes 'Psychological' Road Design | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

...motorist rides on some 200.000 miles of hard-surfaced roads, one-fifth of the earth's total. Nevertheless, last week no less than three plans for another 17,000 miles of U. S. "super highways" were under serious Congressional consideration. In fact, under the pressure of Depression II, the approaching national primaries and the old, old political appetite for pork, these plans were even getting serious consideration at the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: More Roads | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...college accidents, says the statement, are speed, fatigue, and inattention, all closely related. "Speed, especially when too fast for the conditions of night driving or stormy weather, often sends the car off the highway at a sharp curve. It is responsible for the killing of many pedestrians because the motorist out-drives the lighted path of his headlights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HURLEY ASKS STUDENTS TO CHECK FATALITIES | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...Bakersfield, Calif. The car bumped off the road, careened across a five-foot ditch, turned over three times, came to rest on the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Tennist Budge clambered out of the wreck with a few cuts on his face and bruises on his ribs, flagged a motorist to take him to Bakersfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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