Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco's Mare Island, barrage balloons turned slowly in a cold wind. The white collars of sailors lined up to greet the President whipped about their necks. From the windows of the Navy hospital, scores of men in pajamas watched while the President shook hands with men in wheel chairs on the lawn. The President spoke to Marine Leo Lopacinski, who killed 36 Japanese in the Solomon Islands before he himself was wounded. He examined a U.S. submarine which had nine little Japanese flags painted on the conning tower-one for each ship it had sunk...
...year-old Donald Davis really is. No Horatio Alger up-from-nothing boy, he studied engineering at Michigan with the cold-blooded notion that he would avoid settling on any one career until he was 35. Living up to his credo, he shifted from senior engineer for a wheel company to cost accounting for a trust company to factory manager for an auto-accessory company which was making 75-mm. shell casings for World War I. He helped organize the milling division of Herbert Hoover's Food Administration, then switched again to be a major in the Air Service...
...smiling, plump-cheeked woman sat stiffly in a wheel chair before a CBS microphone last Sunday afternoon and sang to the lush strains of Andre Kostelanetz's orchestra. To thousands of listeners the ring of Marjorie Lawrence's voice was the most cheering news in many...
Pinks feeds her on leftover champagne and caviar from the nightclub where he works. He plays butler for her, trundles her all the way from Manhattan to Miami in her wheel chair, plants her in the path of the playboy she is trailing. Risking a 20-year jail turn, Pinks blackmails the crook who slapped her (Barton MacLane) into a one-night loan of a nightclub (complete with Ozzie Nelson), stages a blowout to bolster Her Highness' fading delusions of grandeur. To cap the climax, Pinks appears in full dress, and Her Highness sees him for the first time...
...Harper ($2). The dark secret of a long-vacant house in an English town terrorized by a homicidal maniac who plays hob with the nerves of a pretty young governess. She barely escapes death in leading police to the solution of a super-spooky yarn. The author of The Wheel Spins (filmed as The Lady Vanishes) turns in another master thriller...