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Road Hog. In Bielefeld, Germany, Motorist Georg Plaut was fined $50 for "using insulting language to fellow road users," after he rigged up an illuminated sign in his back window which flashed: SWINE...
...life of the program. The present 2?-per-gallon federal tax on gasoline would go up to 3?. Tires would be taxed at 8? per lb., instead of 5?. Excises on trucks, buses and trailers would be raised from 8% to 10%. The added tax cost to the average motorist: $6 to $9 per year...
...churning cauldron of menacing green and white caps. Frederic Sackrider Remington's The Scout is the epitome of high adventure in the old Wild West, breathing romance that decades of western movie thrillers have failed to dull. Both paintings are just the thing to make any passing motorist feel that the stop was highly worth while...
Barreled Benefits. The nation's most automated industries are chemicals and oils. If it were not for automation, the U.S. motorist would pay a much higher price for gasoline than he does. While the oil industry's average wage jumped from $1.87 hourly in 1949 to $2.47 hourly last year, automation boosted production so fast that the labor cost per barrel of finished products dropped from 28.3? to 23.7?. Refinery workers also benefited. For example, as production at Texas' McMurrey Refining Co. increased from $7,500,000 of high-quality motor fuels a year to $22 million...
...antiquated concept of law, pedestrians in this state now have a prior right to the highway," according to Robert S. Kretschmar, Massachusetts director of the AAA and originator of one of the bills. "The motorist and the pedestrian should have equal responsibility," he added...