Word: rattletraps
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...Rattletrap. In Petaluma, Calif., garage mechanics examined David McClure's car after he complained of a "strange rattle," traced it to the back seat, where they found a rattlesnake poised to strike...
Stalin will protect the working girl, vow the Communists. Last week a pretty 21-year-old blonde, who with three men escaped from Poland to Sweden in a rattletrap plane (TIME, Aug. 13), told how he does...
When Cuba's President Carlos Prío Socarrás decided to scrap Havana's rattletrap trolleys in favor of buses, he thought he knew just the man for the job: tall, tough Millionaire William D. Pawley, 53. Boss of Miami's bus system, Pawley had organized Cuba's first commercial airline and built most of its airfields. Many Cubans regard him as a combination financial wizard and philanthropist...
...your Sept. 8 issue you state: "No city in the U.S. has a more rattletrap public transportation system than Chicago." San Francisco...
...city in the U.S. has a more rattletrap public transportation system than Chicago. Its streetcars, owned by four different companies (all bankrupt) and operated by a fifth, are mostly high-riding "antediluvian arks." Wooden coaches of the McKinley era still clatter around the Loop's rickety elevated lines (also operated by a bankrupt company). On streetcars and El trains alike, lurching is continual, overcrowding chronic and wrecks frequent...