Word: rear-end
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Avenida Ejercito Nacional, stretching out through Mexico City's glittery west side suburbs, is tree-shaded and quiet. One afternoon last week its peace dissolved in sounds familiar to every North American -the scream of braked tires, the clatter and bang of a rear-end collision. A sleek new Oldsmobile, with a pretty girl at the wheel, had smashed into a new Buick...
...Samuel Spencer, president of Southern Railway System, riding on his railway in Virginia, was killed in a rear-end collision. Last week Ernest E. Morris, president of Southern, was riding on his railroad in Georgia (aboard the Ponce de Leon) when the equalizer bar on a diner up ahead broke. The broken bar hit a frog switch, derailed four Pullmans, hurled the last two official cars off a 20-foot trestle, fractured President Norris' skull and left...
...hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...
...ears, Nominee Landon stepped out on the rear platform to declare: "I know this is one of the fine agricultural counties of Colorado and of the western section of the country, and that the beet industry is the nucleus of your prosperity in this county; and I want to say to you that that is one of the crops we can grow in America, and I am in favor of giving it every protection." Fort Morgan and Sterling set the pattern for Governor Landon's rear-end appearances as his special carried him eastward. At State lines droves...
...causes 19% of all highway accidents. Marginal friction (20%) is generated by bad road shoulders, abrupt curves, faulty banking and "fixed objects" such as trees, parked vehicles or pedestrians. Internal-stream friction (44%) is the conflict of faster and slower automobiles moving in the same direction. Its typical accidents: rear-end collision, sideswipe...