Word: rear-end
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...slated for shooting last week were six survivors of one of the worst major collisions in years on the Moscow-Leningrad run, crack line of the entire Soviet Union. To clear the wreckage last year took 13 hours. Few details passed the censor, except that the wreck was a rear-end collision, the dead, 23. With the thermometer at -25°, corpses hacked out of the wreckage were rigid icicles...
...models being darker than the middle-priced cars. On the assumption that almost any 1934 car can go 80 m.p.h. speed had ceased to be a prime selling point. In some models double spare tires have been taken out of the front fenders and one spare concealed inside the rear-end streamlining. Trunk racks have practically disappeared...
...second time this week Harvard coaches have been the victims of bombing outrages at Soldiers Field. Last night when Coach Eddie Bradford stepped on the self-starter of his automobile, a loud crash burst on the stillness of the Cambridge evening. The whole rear-end of his Ford rose in the air and clouds of smoke enveloped the car: then a series of staccato machine-gun blasts; then silence...
...Manhattan, meanwhile, a nine-man committee of the A. of R. E. was making a rear-end attack on the carriers' financial troubles by a series of conferences with organized Labor. Into the New York, New Haven & Hartford's board room marched representatives of 21 railroad unions to ask for: 1) a six-hour day; 2) a billion-dollar U. S. bond issue to eliminate grade crossings; 3) Federal laws for accident indemnity, retirement insurance...
...rear-end outside seats for machine-gunners, built high to command a clear view of snipers...