Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indiana politicos knew that their Republican Governor Ralph Gates had been building a state-wide machine ever since he was elected two years ago. But it was strictly rear-wheel drive-a conventional Republican model with low-pressure heads and reciprocating county chairmen. It would run on alcohol if necessary. Nobody was overenthusiastic when it was brought to Indianapolis last week for the Republican State Convention...
Each of the pea-sized pellets contains in a clay matrix a few husked germs of Lehmann's Lovegrass (a hardy, dry-weather forage crop), a dash of fertilizer and a pinch of insect-&-rodent repellent. Scattered from a "centrifugal planter" (a rimless wheel with spokes of finch pipe), they will seed a swath about 1,000 ft. wide, at the rate of one pellet per square foot. If moisture, sun and temperature conditions are right, the seeds should germinate in the double-quick time of 48 hours, and each will start life with a helpful inheritance of rich...
...whom Stalin once scoffingly asked: "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?") had stated the issue on the eve of elections. The choice was between "the champions and the wreckers of Christianity." He warned against Communism, which promised man material security and then made him into "a soulless wheel...
...cheerfully assured his hosts that there were at least two better golfers in Britain than he. Just 54 hours after getting off the ship, 38-year-old Dick Burton teed off at Boston's Charles River Country Club in a 36-hole match against Byron Nelson, the big wheel of U.S. golf...
Like a nervous puppeteer, Henry J. Kaiser last week jerked one promise off the automotive stage, hastily substituted another. The long-ballyhooed front-wheel-drive Kaiser, promised to car-hungry America this summer, was sidetracked. The cause: "tooling" troubles. In its place, Kaiser last week offered the Kaiser Special, a conventional rear-wheel-drive car, in appearance similar to the Frazer...