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Reckoning. In Portland, Ore., Carl Peterson sent the city a $6.80 bill for repairs on his windshield wiper, thrice damaged by thumb-handed cops tucking parking tickets under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 17, 1946 | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...metal Skysedan will have a top speed of more than 160 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 140. Its 165-horsepower Continental engine will carry it 620 miles on 40 gallons of gas. Special features: a "turret-top" cabin roof for better visibility, and windshield wipers, first ever installed on a light plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cub's Big Brother | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

That'll Teach You. In Phoenix, Ariz., Motorist Victor Nunez crashed into Mrs. Franklin Daley, blamed his car, lacerated his fist by angrily punching in its windshield and side window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Hats & Station Wagons. Farmers were adding to their acreage, or buying for sons back from war; onetime tenant farmers were back from war jobs, their pockets bulging with cash for land; and "windshield" farmers from the city, who thought a farm was a hedge against inflation, were cruising over the land as never before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: Land Boom | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Stripped for Action. In Nora Springs, Iowa, town officials forked over $25 for running a truck with no headlights, no tail lights, no sidelights, no stoplights, no clearance lights, no identification lights, no flares, no red flags, no windshield wiper, no rear-view mirror, no license plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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