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...recognize, of course," said the Minister of Transport, "that at first some motorists may, in certain circumstances, sound their horns almost instinctively. ... As a general rule however, if a pedestrian suddenly steps off the pavement in front of a car, the motorist must stop without sounding his horn...
...desire that the priceless boon of sleep and rest be conferred as quickly as possible on as many as possible, and that the sick in particular shall be freed from the torment of the motor horn at night. . . . The caution which a motorist instinctively displays when he no longer has recourse to his hooter is a contribution to the measure we are taking to increase public safety...
Among Adolf Hitler's most passionate admirers are Germans who make motor cars. A zealous motorist, the Leader, in one of his first acts as Chancellor, started forcing motor sales by exempting new cars for two years from the crushing luxury tax which burdens pre-Hitler cars in Germany. Thus started a nationwide scramble to trade in old cars on which the tax for two years in some cases would exceed the value of the vehicle. Last week without alluding to this "forced sale" technique, the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment proudly announced: "Sales of motor cars in Germany...
...Sussbauer blared his horn at a prim black cat mincing across the road in front of his car. The cat swelled its tail, arched its back, crouched, hissed, sprang from ground to running board, to door, to steering wheel, to Peter Sussbauer. Badly scratched and bitten around the neck, Motorist Sussbauer was hospitalized...
Tasteless and odorless carbon monoxide crumples the coal miner, turns his body cherry red. From the exhaust pipe of his automobile comes the same deadly gas to fell the careless motorist who lets his engine run in a tight-shut garage. Housewives leave unlit gas stoves turned on and whole families perish. Unskilled operators give surgical patients too much anesthesia. Faulty furnaces kill college boys in their beds. Newborn babies breathe once or twice, then breathe no more. . . . In these ways and in many another Death by Asphyxia comes some 50,000 times a year...