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...They flew it at 25,000 feet to test the pressurized cabin; they flew it into a sleet storm so bad that a following DC-4 had to turn back. The DC-6, with its new anti-icing equipment (heated pipes along the leading edges of wings, tail and windshield), went right on through. Three weeks ago, Pat Patterson and about 40 officials and pressmen climbed into a DC-6 in Los Angeles, flew nonstop to New York in 6¾ hours, with the help of a mighty tail wind (top ground speed: 474 m.p.h.). Last week, United took another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Raven Among Nightingales | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Conclusion. In Jackson, Mich., police took a good look at the Leslie High School bus, pronounced it unfit for service: poor tires, defective brakes, loose front left wheel, loose steering mechanism, cracked windshield, no muffler, no emergency brake, no tail pipe, no horn, no first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...with Hupp. This was a long way from the one Hupmobile with which Founder Carl Eric Wickman, whose sad eyes seem to be always peering through a windshield, started in 1914. An immigrant from Sweden, Wickman carried passengers on the dirt roads fanning out from Hibbing, Minn. Practically in at the birth of the bus business, his infant line grew by gobbling up his one-car competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: New Day for the Hound | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...disheveled blonde with a set lip and calloused hands, and she was thumbing a ride in New Jersey's Palisades Park. Through his windshield, Patrolman Leonard Cottrell saw her soiled shirt, the dirty dungarees rolled to her knees, the cheap zipper bag she carried. He pulled to the curb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: So You Won't Talk, Huh? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Horse Power. In Morrison, Ill., Horsewoman Joan Potter was slightly bruised and her horse slightly cut in a collision with a bus, which suffered a broken windshield, two smashed headlights, a damaged steering gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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