Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last, Baron Aloisi was persuaded to telephone this to Premier Mussolini who had spent most of the week at the wheel of his racing car dashing from one troop ship on the point of sailing to the next. "Crush all before you!" he had been telling battalion after battalion of cheering troops. "The hour of destiny for Italy has struck...
...difficult to identify a body with its whole face bashed in or torn off. . . . The driver is death's favorite target. If the steering wheel holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen so he bleeds to death internally. Or. if the steering wheel breaks off. the matter is settled instantly by the steering column's plunging through his abdomen...
...Ferris wheel is so diminutive that only a flea could enjoy...
...mounted vertical rudder fins. The ailerons are so rigged that they also serve as elevators, thus simplifying control. The chunky two-place cabin has windows of a flexible fireproof fibre known as plastacelle. Like the Hammond, it has a Menasco motor and pusher propeller at the rear, a third wheel in front. Because this wheel is hooked up with the rudder, the plane may be steered on the ground like an automobile, a decided advantage when taxiing in a crosswind...
Most modern aircraft use two kinds of brakes: wheel-brakes on the ground, and "air brakes" (wing flaps) to reduce flying speed. Last week a third kind of brake was being tested on Pan American Airways' big transoceanic Clipper Ships...