Science: Speed & Safety

Two knowing men last week tangled assertions as to what might be safe speeds for motor cars to operate.

Said Paul Hoffman, vice president in charge of sales and one of the four men who operate the great Studebaker Corp. and who are currently engaged in making Fierce-Arrow highly profitable : "Whether you like it or not, the public wants speed. . . . This Council can save lives by urging States to remove their maximum speed laws so that motorcycle policemen will stop chasing fast cars that are imperiling no one and devote themselves to removing the reckless driver...

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