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...impact at the time of the accident must have been terrific, according to police. Both front wheels were torn off, the left front windshield and windows on both sides were smashed. Reporters theorized that Tuttle had not died without a struggle. The rear window was broken, probably by his attempts to escape when he found the doors jammed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Dies in Charles as Auto Plummets off Bridge | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

...revoked the jail sentences, but could do nothing about the sidecurls, particularly precious to orthodox Jews.*) Even Rabbi Fishman, who had been protesting the official use of government cars on the Sabbath, had a complaint to make. His own official automobile-with "Minister of Religion" printed prominently on the windshield-had been seen on the Sabbath cruising about the streets of Tel Aviv...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Stamp of Judaism | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...passes the test, the owner will get a sticker for the lower right band portion of his windshield. Massachusetts cars failing to display such a ticket after November 1 will be ticketed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Registered Cars Slated for Inspection | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...friendship with Hiss. Chambers' new testimony showed an amazing knowledge of Alger Hiss's private life. With meticulous precision, Chambers described the interior of three houses and one apartment occupied by Hiss. He remembered a car Hiss had once owned-an old jalopy with a hand-operated windshield wiper. He recalled that Mrs. Hiss,* like himself, was a Quaker. Once, said Chambers, Hiss had told him a boyhood story of using a child's wagon to peddle bottled spring water to the neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Confrontation | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Since the war, drive-ins have also multiplied their technical refinements. The sound, which in the first movie parks issued sometimes from staggered loudspeakers, sometimes from underground grilles, is now brought into the family car over small portable speakers. This device, with the help of a good windshield wiper, brings the show through clearly even during pelting rainstorms (though fog is still a bugbear); and some northern drive-in managers are dreaming that a new combination heater-speaker will enable them to keep going all winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ozoners | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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