Word: windshields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
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...
...police arrested Anthony Spellay as a vagrant, searched him, found in his pockets : 4 flashlights, 4 screwdrivers, 10 teaspoons, 5 pkgs. of tobacco, 4 Ibs. of cooked ham, 1 bag of candy, 3 wrenches, 2 extension cords, 1rear-view mirror, i tube of sealing compound,1 steel tape, i windshield wiper, 1 gearshift knob, 1 pr. of ladies' gloves, 1 skirt, 1 brassiere...
...only big accident on the police blotter this morning involved four cars which slid into each other at the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Streets. The joint threw one girl into the windshield of the car she occupied, and police who sped to the scene removed her to the hospital. Her injuries were not serious, doctors said...