Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Motors' Allison division at Indianapolis announced that it was all ready to produce an engine in the 3,000-h.p. class. Unlike the air-cooled engine builders, who range their cylinders around a crankcase like the spokes of a wheel, Allison turns out liquid-cooled (Prestone) engines with cylinders in banks. The familiar Allison is a V-type, like the famed Rolls-Royce or the twelve-cylinder engine of a Packard motor...
...handsome, 31-year-old lieutenant rose from his wheel chair at Camp Anza, Calif, and heard the verdict without batting an eye. The verdict: death by hanging...
...coming in ... boring straight at me without firing a shot. I wondered: 'When will that crazy guy ever turn off?' He kept coming. Then I knew why. That Messerschmitt was piloted by a dead one. At the last second I shoved the wheel forward and prayed. . .. He couldn't have missed by much, because he took off our aerial...
...from the wreckage rose Seaman Johnnie Hutchins, mortally wounded and failing fast. He grasped the helm and turned the ship clear of the torpedo. Then he died with his hands clutched tight around the wheel...
There was Thomas Neglia, reputed North Side gambling king. He was already in a reclining position, getting a barber shop shave, when hoodlums rubbed him out. John Pisano, a small-time gangster, was shot at the wheel of his car. The gunmen who murdered James D'Angelo, a gambler and saloonkeeper, trussed his limp body up with a clothesline, left it in the trunk of his automobile...