Word: hubcap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concrete monument to a taxi driver who was tortured and shot by Batista soldiers; the burned hulk of a bus, rusting and grown over with weeds; bullet holes in the roadside huts; the twisted girders of dynamited bridges, and the shaky timbers of temporary spans, where the water rushes hubcap-high. The road signs are newly painted black and red-the rebel colors...
...when the stockholders brought Black in to save it. Black's first accomplishment was to bring out, in 1937, the first light, fast truck motor that gave the truck industry the kind of power needed for modern, swift intercity traffic. White again turned the industry on its hubcap by tucking the truck motor under the cab seat. This cut 1 ft. off the cab length, substantially increasing the loading space. To answer the industry's need for an easily serviced engine, White made cabs that would tilt forward, exposing the whole engine at workbench height...
...Plastic Hubcaps. A plastic hubcap that will not rust or dent was put on sale by Colorado Fiberglass Corp. Made to fit any 14-or 15-in. wheel, the hubcaps come in 20 two-tone color combinations, do not show scratches because the color runs all the way through. Cost: about the same as chrome hubcaps...
...post in both Florida and New York. Artfully steered by Champion Jockey Willie Hartack, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn worked his way between horses to catch lightly favored Lincoln Road and win Gulfstream's Florida Derby by half a length. At Jamaica, Elkcam Stable's Hubcap just stole the Swift Stakes from Warner Stable's Levelation by a dirty nose...
Beck, explained Loomis to the committee, "was extremely angry because I had stood up to him and treated him like he was just an ordinary mortal. He might be a big wheel, but as far as I was concerned, he was just a hubcap. He said that nobody was going to tell him [what to do]-that his conscience was going to be his guide...