Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come a steady, ever-swelling stream of refugees, Jews and Gentiles, liberals and conservatives, Catholics as well as Protestants, who could stand Naziism no longer. TIME'S cover, showing Organist Adolf Hitler playing his hymn of hate in a desecrated cathedral while victims dangle on a St. Catherine's wheel and the Nazi hierarchy looks on, was drawn by Baron Rudolph Charles von Ripper (see p. 20), a Catholic who found Germany intolerable. Meanwhile, Germany has become a nation of uniforms, goose-stepping to Hitler's tune, where boys of ten are taught to throw hand grenades, where women...
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...cushioned disk (connected to the transmission gears), which takes power from the engine when it is forced against a disk on the face of the engine's spinning flywheel. In fluid drive the flywheel is equipped not with a disk, but with a sort of water wheel. Facing the blades of this water wheel is a similar set of blades on the transmission shaft. The two sets of blades are enclosed in a sealed compartment filled with light oil. As the flywheel gathers speed, the blades attached to it set the oil in motion, and the moving oil drives...
Other leaders in his profession throughout the U. S. respect New York's safety measures and driving tests, which Commissioner Harnett has supervised although he never touches a steering wheel himself. Several States have copied the Harnett system of using two standard colors for license plates, reversing numerals and background each year...
...trucking industry, which gives employment to more than 3,000,000, pays special taxes of $417,500,000 ($89,000,000 more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter and White. Motor-makers were Aircooled Motors Corp., Buda, Continental, Cummins, Hercules, and Waukesha. Represented, too, were some 75 body, wheel, accessory and fuel companies...