Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black 1941 Cadillac, with a master sergeant at the wheel, is waiting for him at the door. It rolls out the Embassy's tree-lined driveway past two sentry boxes at which two starched G.I.s come to attention; in the street the car is picked up by an escort of white MP jeeps. On the five-minute ride to work, MacArthur passes a sandlot where Japanese kids play baseball, a number of government buildings (some destroyed), the Sakurada Gate of the Imperial Palace, the green algae-covered Imperial moat. 'For the general, the traffic lights are always green...
...Test Runs. Vandenberg's backstage strategists want the nomination to come as a real draft. They had not turned a campaign wheel and did not intend to; but their man was climbing steadily in public popularity. Last week they counted up the nominations of college and university mock conventions,* found that the Senator was far ahead of the field...
...Wanna make a few hundred over the weekend, B,ud, driving a new Buick across the border?" If Bud did, and didn't mind smuggling, he got behind the wheel and purred south. At the border town of Laredo, a tourist card could be bought for $2.10. From Laredo south to Monterrey is only 146 miles over good roads, and at Monterrey a pickup would take the Buick, and sell...
Fielder's Choice. In Pacific Beach, Calif., Stan Picard lost a wheel off his trailer, watched it roll into the hands of a stranger who quickly loaded it into his car and drove away...
...Dearborn this week, Benson Ford took his turn at the family steering wheel. Out of his Lincoln-Mercury Motor Division he rolled two sleek new low-slung cars-the 1949 model Lincolns. The Ford Motor Co., first of the Big Three to make radical body changes in all its cars, had spent $90 million doing it. Ben Ford's Lincolns were the first models unwrapped...