Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday's demonstration, at which some fifty bystanders watched Yard police Pull up the crosses and wheel them away, did not cause any unusual disturbance...
Koons got his steel from K-F at mill cost. But to get it he had to pay over $600,000 for a lot of things K-F wanted to get rid of, e.g., jigs and dies for K-F's abandoned front-wheel-drive auto, aluminum scrap left over from experiments with car bodies. Koons told the committee he lost $500,000 on sale of the tie-in junk. But, through his steel, he netted a $14,000 final profit on the whole deal. The committee got an eye-opening account of how fast steel gets around...
Such post-impressionists as Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cézanne wrenched the wheel further around, by refusing to paint precisely what they saw. They also painted what they felt about it, and they inclined to look more at their pictures than at their subjects. It remained for the living moderns, led by Picasso and Matisse, to give the final twist. A painting, they decided, is a painting first and foremost, and whatever it represents must be secondary. Granted that much, they felt perfectly justified in making their own rules, regardless of "appearances." Some (the nonobjective painters) chose to ignore...
Meanwhile, Ed Barit prodded his engineers to recapture the art which had given Hudson the industry's longest list of "firsts" (e.g., first aluminum pistons, first rear luggage compartment, first steering-wheel gearshift). Last fall they were finally ready with something that Barit felt to be a real advance. The new Hudson was so low that passengers step over the frame and down into it from the curb, yet it still has more headroom and width than any other car now being mass-produced. It also has a lower center of gravity. Barit was so convinced...
...find two kinds of poor drivers," he announced, "those whose IQ shows they can't read the read signs, and others whose IQ's are above 110. College professors are in the latter group. Investigation indicates that professors at the steering wheel permit their thoughts to dwell on matters other than driving...