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Driving such a car in "high."he British motorist will set his preselector for "second" or "first," knowing that sooner or later a hill or traffic pause must come. When it does he merely throws out his clutch and is shifted by a mechanical thingumbob into the gear which he has "pre-selected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pre-Selector | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...constant presence of parked cabs, and the buses and street cars which stop there, make it an especially dangerous point. The autoist himself is in an unenviable position. Having voluntarily relinquished the use of an auto because of its inevitable annoyances at Harvard, I can speak for both motorist and pedestrian on this point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In The Nick of Time | 5/10/1932 | See Source »

...Johnson, local Red Cross official, for gasoline money. Inquisitive Red Grossman Johnson lifted the engine hood of the automobile, found beneath it no motor. The automobilist explained that he had been towed all the way from New Hampshire. His method: in each town he would stop a motorist, tell him his car was broken down, ask for a tow to the next town where a relative would pay for repairs. Mr. Johnson withheld Red Cross aid. The motorless automobilist immediately got a tow to Santa Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Storage | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...gasoline tax rate ranged from 2¢ per gal. in Massachusetts,? Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Missouri, Wisconsin up to 6^ in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Ohio with a 4^ rate made the largest collection ($37,081,451), Nevada the smallest ($675,012). New York motorists used the most gasoline (1,438,582,-716 gal.), California the next (1,162,337,-545 gal.). The average U. S. motorist burned up 556 gal. in the course of the year, on which his tax was $18.62. (Average automobile registration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Gas, Incomes | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...When a motorist wants his car back he turns a key, presses a button or drops a coin, according to the parker's electric control arrangement. Thereupon the cage containing his car drops to street level, the car rolls out, much like a "hot dog" rolling out of a roasting machine in a roadside rotisserie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vertical Parking | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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