Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With such inducement, more & more famous names have been grabbing an armful of records and sponsors, and going to work at fortune's wheel. A few: ex-Bandleader Tommy Dorsey (450 stations) is guaranteed $300,000; ex-Sportcaster Ted Husing (Manhattan's WHN) can aim for $250,000; Andre Baruch and Bea Wain (Manhattan's WMCA...
...disc jockey's turntable began to look like radio's wheel of fortune and by last week, two networks had bought a share of the earnings...
...money from the mortgage on his North Hollywood, Calif, home and began building a pair of autos to win the Indianapolis 500-mile race. In seven months, he put $57,000 worth of bronze, aluminum and steel, each part laboriously hand-tooled, into his sleek four-cylinder front-wheel-drive beauties...
Jessup was the engine-room philosopher. He liked to puzzle out the "meaning" as well as the mechanics of the Cape Harting's boilers, pumps, ejectors, condensers, "the maze of teeth [on] the great twelve-foot bull gear . . . hobbed in spirals, or helices, across the gear wheel's rim." What, he wondered, was the net effect on man of such machines? Would the jittery 20th Century eventually learn to relax in a "kingdom of engines?" Ed Greenewater laughed and said, "Goddamn it, don't take it so hard, Second." The Chief grunted and went on reading...
...Wheel-Shaped City. In Changchun itself-the modern, wheel-shaped city of green trees and creamy buildings which the Japs built as a capital for puppet Manchukuo-the sturdy Manchu citizenry were doing their best to remain calm. During the months of cowboy-&-Indian type warfare around Changchun, civilians could (and many did) pile on to trains heading south toward Peiping. But, with the rails cut, civilians were stuck...