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...overpass. With a reverberation heard for a mile, the gas tanks exploded, spread flames which were soon shooting 40 ft. high. The wreckage rolled over, lay on its side across the road. The engine, torn completely off, fell 200 ft. away. The driver and another man shot through the windshield, badly hurt, clothes ablaze. Three others managed to crawl through the windows. But 18 screaming, fighting men and women burned to death inside...
...racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police in the Hollywood area recently had to clean up an outbreak of car "jockeys''-youths who jumped on the running board, wiped the windshield with a dirty rag, refused to budge until tipped. Berliners are bothered by car-watching on Kurfurstendamm, Chicagoans in the Loop, Viennese on the Ringstrasse...
...send 10,000 Bobbies to keep order in East London. Too late to avert the riot, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police Sir Philip Game informed Sir Oswald that mobsters were getting out of hand and the 5,000 Fascists could not be allowed to march. In a closed car, the windshield of which was quickly smashed by a paving stone, the Fascist leader rushed to his lined-up Blackshirts, yelled "Sir Philip has banned the march...
...honor of this truce the U. S. company was appropriately renamed United American Bosch Corp. Deep in the automobile equipment business. United American makes horns, starters, generators, windshield wipers, ignition systems for Henry Ford. Other lines include radios, Diesel engine accessories, gas appliances. Magnetos are still Bosch's most profitable line. Every winner of the Indianapolis Sweepstakes for the past eleven years has had Bosch ignition. United's best year was 1928 when it took in $13,400,000, kept $1,000,000 profit. Deficits were the rule during the depth of Depression, though by last year...
Director of Publicity Alfred Henry Kirchhofer, aloof, lantern-jawed managing editor and onetime Washington correspondent of the Buffalo (N. Y.) evening News, was turning out press releases by the thousand, buttons, sunflowers and windshield stickers by the million. Working boss of Hoover publicity in the 1928 campaign, Press-agent Kirchhofer announced when appointed to his current post: "The usual hokum won't go in this campaign...