Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motorists have driven around the world but between North and South America no wheel has ever rolled. This fact largely explains the backwardness and poverty of Central America's seven sequestered little nations. It is therefore with genuine delight and excitement that all of them have looked forward for months to the dedication this week of a modern motor highway reaching nearly a quarter of the 3,200 miles from the U. S. to Panama and filling in one more great gap in the long-awaited Inter-American Highway...
...Ship of State is on the Rocks And soon it will be sunk. It has no pilot at the wheel But regimented Bunk. It wanders to the right and left, It flounders all around. It needs a Captain on the Bridge Whose reckoning is sound. London, Oh! Landon, will lead to Victory, With the dear old Constitution And it's good enough...
Rolls-Royce after Rolls-Royce twinkled up to the docks in Southampton, although it was Derby Day, and swank Britons scrambled to wave goodbys while broad Southampton Water was pack-jammed with British paddle-wheel steamers made joyously lopsided by passengers crowding near as possible to the Queen Mary. From Buckingham Palace the King Emperor flashed final greetings. From the Stateliest Ship began stately and soul-stirring B.B.C. broadcasts day and night to every remotest corner of the empire...
...matters rather less than many imagine whether Governor Landon, Senator Vandenburg, Colonel Knox, or some one of the darker horses like Senator Steiwer is finally nominate. It would matter a great deal if Senator Borah, by some freak turn of Fortune's wheel, were nominated. Should he, with his inflationary visions and incept record in foreign affairs, be nominated, the voter would face the unpleasant prospect of choosing between the devil and the deep blue...
...Perpetually standing between Adolf Hitler and the lusty, quarreling Nazi cliques are a group of bachelor bodyguards. Their chief is Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckner, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, who sleeps outside Hitler's door. When Hitler drove out in his huge Mercedes-Benz, the man at the wheel was usually Julius Schreck, muscular, slit-eyed sub-commander of the Schutzstaffel, who wore an imitation Hitler mustache. Substitute chauffeur was Erich Kempka, 25, Schutzstaffel captain. Since even Prussian Premier Goring and Minister of Propaganda Goebbels cannot see the Realmleader without an appointment, Hitler's bodyguards...