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...four propelling paddles or fins. Commander Gould wanted Parliament to pass a law protecting it from harm. Meantime more & more people were seeing the monster. "An abomination with a three-arched neck and a body four feet high" galumphed across the road in front of a motorist. Driving near the lake with his daughter, a Mr. W. Urwick Goodbody stared goggle-eyed through his field glasses for 40 min. at a swimming creature with a long, thin neck, a small head and, he thought, eight humps on its back. The Chief Constable of Aberdeenshire forbade Scotsmen to take potshots...
...highway between Washington and Baltimore the Patapsco River, raging out of bounds, swallowed up two Army sergeants, a truck driver and a motorist who had tried to navigate the flooded road...
...monochromatic, i.e. it glows in but one color. Such light is useful in highway illumination because it reveals the details of objects at low levels of illumination, casts almost no shadow. The yellow glow of the sodium eliminates the offensive glare of white light, and, although the average motorist would probably find the bulb dim at first sight, it actually gives three to four times more light than the ordinary street lamp. The Philips bulb is credited with increasing seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places in Holland, England, Denmark, Switzerland...
...Cincinnati. Mrs. Margaret L. Pogue, motorist, extended her arm to give a traffic signal. A bale of straw fell from a passing truck, struck her arm, broke it below the elbow...
Though many a motorist fears to help them hitchhike, no half-wild bandits like Russia's besprizorni are the footloose U. S. youngsters. Most of them have had grammar or high-school education. Some are adventurous runaways. Most have been squeezed out by family want. They despise professional hoboes. Pride keeps many away from welfare houses. A Michigan boy finished barber college after his parents died in 1929, found Michigan had loo many barbers already, took to the road. Too proud to beg, he made $3 carry him 2,000 mi. and eleven days. He explained...