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...over a range of from 9? to 19½? per gallon. It caused gasoline to be sold last week in San Francisco for 7?, in Los Angeles for 6?, in Tacoma for 8?, and in Seattle for nothing-an enthusiastic dealer giving away five gallons of gas to every motorist who had his oil changed. In California the State Tax alone is 3? per gallon. For a time people were buying gasoline and storing it in their bathtubs, which alarmed the Fire Prevention Bureau. Many a gas station proprietor has speedily approached ruin these last few weeks...
Whether the U. S. motorist would take kindly to the "bantam" Austin remained of course for time to demonstrate. The car is derived from the English Austin (though U. S. built and financed) and in England the Austin, made by Sir Herbert Austin, frequently termed Ford of England, has been successful for some eight years. There are also French and German companies making French and German Austins. In England and on the Continent, however, car sizes are considerably smaller than in the U. S., partly because of government taxes graded to weight and horsepower, partly because the foreign motorist...
...Prince Frederick, Md., Jack Wildstein, motorist, met a bull on the highway, stopped politely. Impolite, the bull charged the car, butted it 15 ft. backwards. Jack Wildstein turned his car around, drove away...
What many a through motorist, delayed by local traffic, has long wished for, lay behind Bills introduced in the New York legislature last week to incorporate New York & New England Motorways Corp. Proposed was a high-speed, four-track toll boulevard between New York City's northern rim and New Haven, Conn. (85 mi.). Two hundred million dollars private capital would construct, maintain and police the project. All crossroads would be bridged over. The centre roadways, divided by a metal fence, would have a minimum speed limit of 35 m. p. h. Slower traffic would move on the outer lanes...
...Many a motorist has been warned against picking up unknown characters along the road. Wisconsin first passed a law making it an offense not only for a hiker to solicit a hitch but for a motorist to pick him up. Other states with laws aimed only at the hitchhiker: Maine, New Jersey, Minnesota, District of Columbia. Athens, Ga., passed a municipal ordinance to prevent University of Georgia students from begging rides into Atlanta...