Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, March 28). The game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...
...Union has been developing for the past three years. The steel "plow" weighs ten tons, is ten feet long, four feet wide, three feet high, resembles a gigantic stone boat. Beneath its rear end a keel furrows 16 inches deep in the ocean floor, feeds a cable over a wheel into the trench. The churning wheel and sea's action quickly refill the furrow. Submarine plows can bury 15 miles of cable a day, may be able to save cable companies $500,000 a year...
...Latest addition to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, of which Franklin Roosevelt is one of the founders, is a small nondenominational chapel which, between five rows of pews and the altar, has a wide floor space in which infantile paralytics who cannot kneel to pray may worship in their wheel chairs. Last week, the President and his party attended dedicatory services conducted by Atlanta's Episcopal Bishop Henry J. Mikell. C. Back from a three-week lecture tour on the West Coast, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in Warm Springs after a plane trip from Seattle via Atlanta...
...prominent University Hall Official was interviewed concerning the scandal. Induced from a pigeon-hole by a tempting piece of Roquefort, the official asserted, cautiously peering from side to side, "I will recommend militant disciplinary action. I'm off to Pinehurst. Wheel Say, didn't you think the latest Lampoon was a smackeroo? Omigosh, here comes a secretary. Enough is enough...
United Press vouched for this: "A bus driver was blown out of his seat by the concussion of a bomb. His lifeless hands still gripped the steering wheel...