Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour at a roulette wheel in the Casino at Juan-les-Pins, France. Novelist E. Phillips Oppenheim won 200,000 francs ($13,180). Said Gambler Oppenheim: "A very amusing pastime...
...from Washington to his McCook, Neb. home, 73-year-old Senator George William Norris slowed down to 15 m.p.h. to look around for a tourist home. Suddenly a 9-year-old youngster darted in front of the machine. Senator Norris swerved, braked-but too late. The front wheel of the car passed over the boy's body, killed him. Senator & Mrs. Norris attended the funeral, were cleared by a coroner's jury, drove carefully on toward McCook...
Near Klagenfurt, Austria. Peter Sussbauer blared his horn at a prim black cat mincing across the road in front of his car. The cat swelled its tail, arched its back, crouched, hissed, sprang from ground to running board, to door, to steering wheel, to Peter Sussbauer. Badly scratched and bitten around the neck, Motorist Sussbauer was hospitalized...
...started in a small laboratory 15 years ago when Tommy Milton, whose cars he had "doctored," commissioned him to build one. He dislikes plotting engine areas, explains his ideas to subordinates who put them on paper. No businessman, he has sold enough patents, like those for the front-wheel drive under which Cord operates, to make him several fortunes. Yet he is perpetually in financial straits, once refusing to discuss a deal which might have made him rich because the manufacturer "talked engines like a durn fool...
Within their long lives, however, neither Francois de Wondol nor Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider has ever let drop a word to indicate that he sees any connection between his business and an eventual ruin of his capitalistic industry. Only Sir Basil Zaharoff, doddering brokenly in his wheel chair, seems to give any outward evidence of disillusionment. That may be only because he gambled $20,000,000 of his personal fortune on the only war in which he ever took emotional sides--the Greco-Turkish War in 1921--and lost...