Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief significance of the 1932 program is that Russia, which has had her shoulder at the wheel for three years, must push even harder this year. The heavy industries of coal, metal, transportation, machine building, backbone of the Five-Year Plan, must meet the country's needs. Russia's "industrial giants"?Dnieprostroy (dam), Magnetogorsk (steel city in remote Ural foothills ) etc.?must be pushed to completion. Then the tired Russian shoulder will get a rest, heavy Russian feet may be better shod...
...police car two miles, five miles, ten miles, firing random shots at the tires. Finally in a burst of speed he edged in front of it, forced it to nose into an embankment. Opening its door he found a grey-haired, middle-aged woman at the wheel, a trim, nice-looking young man beside her. In the back seat sat another young man and, beside him, a mummy-like thing roped up in a sheet. Officer Harbottle ripped open the sheet, was horrified to discover that it contained the naked corpse of Joe Kahahawai, a bullet hole through his chest...
Hernia operations normally require six weeks of convalescence, the first two in bed, the next two in a wheel chair. Less than two days after operating on himself, Dr. Kane walked to the operating room, assisted Dr. Cleveland in a major operation on a woman patient...
...Taxi, Cagney's impudent Irish face is first seen sticking out from behind a steering wheel, spouting Yiddish at a customer. Leader of an insurgent group of cabdrivers who resent the methods of a racketeering corporation, Cagney has ample chance to perform his specialty?a short right-hand punch to the side of the jaw. He threatens his girl (Loretta Young) almost every time he sees her, takes a poke at the clerk from whom they get a marriage license. Right after the marriage, Cagney sets out to avenge a murder committed by the head racketeer of the taxi corporation...
...level streets, and underpasses at street intersections, and suggests the restricting of all foot traffic to second-story arcades. The extended use of mechanical parking garages was felt to be the most economical automobile parking solution. A new invention, the Vertical Parking Machine, similar to a Ferris Wheel in design, was highly recommended...