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Returning with this good news to the famished Ruala, the party was attacked by raiders in three automobiles from yet another hostile tribe. Modern Arabian raiders travel in big cars, shoot high-powered rifles and race off like satanic hit-&-run drivers in a motorist's nightmare. Although the Ruala ambassadors killed the crews of the raiding automobiles, Faris was terribly wounded with two bullets in his breast. Carl Raswan wanted to take him to Damascus to a French surgeon, but the dying man demanded to be taken directly to Tuema. They were married the next night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brothers of the Desert | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...driven a car for years without having ever sounded his horn is either a bit absent-minded or he is not fit to drive a car. Many many fatal accidents have occurred because no warning was given. It is better to annoy a pedestrian or motorist than to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Excerpts from "-And Sudden Death": "Publicizing the total of motoring in-juries-almost a million last year, with 36,000 deaths-never gets to first base in jarring the motorist into a realization of the appalling risks of motoring. He does not translate dry statistics into a reality of blood and agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Blood & Agony | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

Soaring over Moscow's Red Square one day last week, Maxim Gorki seemed a mighty symbol of Soviet power & progress. A small training plane, gnatlike by comparison, flew alongside it. Spellbound moujiks cheered as giant and gnat disappeared in the hazy distance. Short while later a motorist drove up, babbled excitedly about how he had seen Maxim Gorki crash. Hardly had the news leaked out when instantly Soviet censorship clamped down. Not until ten hours later did the world know that the largest land-plane ever built had really met with disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Red Reward | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...system: Whenever a Zagreb motorist is caught breaking a traffic rule by a Zagreb policeman, the officer then & there deflates all four of the motorist's tires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Appropriate Justice | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

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