Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close Calls. In Goshen. Ind.. Walter Call was arrested for driving without a license, so Mrs. Call took the wheel, promptly plowed into the rear of the police car at a traffic light, was arrested for driving with defective brakes...
Detroit was typical. There, 4,500 struck at Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., forcing the Ford Motor Co. to send 30,000 home and shut down temporarily. A strike of 500 at Hudson Motor Car Co. threw another 6,000 out of work. All across the nation, strikes mushroomed faster than the War Labor Board could keep track of them, much less track down the reasons for all of them...
Four months before Pearl Harbor, he had been adjusting washers on the final assembly line, when the foreman switched him to a new line-hydraulic wheel retractors for aircraft. The swift scrambling of the plant's orderly insides had made Emil blink. His work week had jumped from 40 to 84 hours. Emil had hardly been able to see the fat overtime pay checks. But as the plant clanked out of its surprise, the hours came back to a reasonable 48, and Emil was again earning his usual dollar an hour, plus time and a half...
...Turning Wheel. The official version limped in at last, first by telephone from...
...latest turn of the wheel had really begun at Potsdam. On his way to his first Big Three conference, the President had made clear to his companions that his No. 1 objective was to bring Russia into the Pacific war at a moment best calculated to end the war quickly...