Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outsiders, the highly specialized job of making his own bodies. It will be some two months before the huge presses to stamp them out are in the plant. Outside of this, Hunt will have to depend almost entirely on outside suppliers for his parts-motors from Continental Motors Corp., wheels from Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., etc.-whereas most other automakers turn out a good share of their parts themselves. Thus, he will be hit doubly hard by the partsmakers strikes now plaguing the industry...
Turn of the Wheel. He was not master of his house in BuAer. He got no credit for cutting administrative corners to procure new planes which paid off after Pearl Harbor: the Dauntless, the Avenger, the Hellcat. He became Commander, Air, Pacific (in 1942) and it looked like the fulfillment of his dreams, until it turned into desk duty. When a commander was picked for the great central Pacific offensive in 1943, not Jack Towers but Battleshipman Raymond Ames Spruance...
...court, they began to realize that they were on trial not only for a hundred children murdered here, a thousand women tortured there (the French and Russians would take up these charges later in the trial), but for their parts in the Great Conspiracy. Like spokes to a wheel, the prosecution joined propaganda to atrocity, atrocity to law and finance, and all of these to the Nazi plan to rule all Europe and lands beyond...
...rebuilt its curriculum around a "core" of seven required courses. In Yale's "Experimental Program," students take prescribed courses for the first two years. The postwar educational models differ somewhat in chromium extras, but in one way all are alike: students will have less chance at the wheel than their immediate predecessors...
...without our brain and muscle not a single wheel could turn...