Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stopped running last week, President Truman went to a White House garden party, sipped some lemonade and calmly ate a dish of ice cream. It was a party for disabled war veterans, arranged several weeks before. Harry Truman shook hands with some 900 wounded men, many of them in wheel chairs. One disabled man asked the President how the railroad strike was going. Said Harry Truman: it was still...
...arrived at Penn Station hardly able to walk. The sound of lonely locomotives only emphasized the nation's paralysis. During the 48 hours of the strike, only 100 of the country's 17,500 scheduled passenger trains, only 240 of 24,000 freight trains, ever turned a wheel...
After taking over the wheel at Lowell House in 1940, Dr. Perkins piloted the good ship through the "cold and costly" years of the war. He recalls many exacting moments: The high point of his career was Commencement Day, 1944, when seniors were leaving, the class of 1919 was having a colorful spree in Lowell courtyard, and the class of 1948 was entering. He also had a hot time Christmas of that year when someone forgot to open the chimney for the burning of the Yule log at the Christmas dinner ceremonies. Through all of this, the Perkins wit made...
...some States-my own in particular -you can buy a license to drive a car for 25? at the corner drugstore. . . . A man or a woman or a child can . . . get behind the wheel. . . . If he is insane ... a nut or a moron does not make a particle of difference. . . . The States . . . take no steps to prevent you or me from being killed by some moron that has no more business at the wheel of a car than he has at the throttle of an engine...
...Along. In San Diego, a discouraged broncobuster advertised for sale a "Western saddle, bridle, blanket and halter; rope, block and tackle, wheel chair...