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...Tucson, Ariz., Marjorie Volke set out for a drive, noticed a traffic ticket under her automobile's windshield wiper. Without stopping her car she reached for the ticket, skidded into a hydrant, released a geyser. Autoist Volke's bill (for the hydrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

First part of an airplane to ice up in heavy weather is its windshield. It usually becomes opaque as a bathroom window long before wings and propeller begin to take on ice. Standard flying-field crack to pilots complaining about this phenomenon is "Get yourself a windshield wiper." Last week this ironic wheeze became reasonable advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wiper | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Announced by Air Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wiper | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...hook-and-ladder is 55 feet long overall, cost $18,325, and features a windshield complete with wiper for the man who steers from the rear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firemen Gather to Witness Wonder of $18,000 Apparatus | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...proudly claiming him as ''the world's youngest minister." In a year Charles Jaynes Jr. has become heavier (weight 69 lb.), has substituted a brushed-back bob for the Dutch bangs of his pre-ministerial days. Under the tutelage of his middle-aged nurse and nose-wiper, Neva Duff, he has learned to read from the Bible, study third-grade subjects. But he still sermonizes by rote, had to be coached by Nurse Duff in his ordination sermon. Cocky, pounding fist on fist to emphasize his points, he shrilled: "I want to assure you there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Minister, 7 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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