Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wounded. The river plays a vital part in industrial life. At Volga piers land oil tankers and other ships loaded with iron and foods. The noise of machines and the song of Volga dockers do not stop from dawn to dusk. Here we can see how the huge wheel of war whirls unceasingly...
...airdromes and dispersal fields Chinese attendants ran from one group of pilots to another calling "One-ball jin bad" (one-ball air raid). The pilots climbed into their cockpits. The pursuits began to move, wheeling out of dust clouds in clots of threes, whirring down the runways. In the twilight Chungking's airraid wardens watched them wheel east to meet the enemy...
...struggle to take away what power he had caught Nelson at a bad time. WPB's program was sadly out of gear. Some of the nation's bright, shiny, proud new factories would never turn a wheel, for lack of raw materials; some might even have to be torn down for scrap. This was not Nelson's fault: the Army & Navy had contributed to the shortages by prodigal waste in specifications...
...mental processes. Before Pearl Harbor no profit-minded synthetic producer in his right mind was working on anything but how to make a product enough better than natural rubber to justify its higher cost. After Pearl Harbor the industry suddenly saw that anything better than a wooden wheel was worth going after. Two major events last week illuminated that change in direction...
...Washington, officials admitted that many war plants now under construction will not turn a wheel for months after they are completed, at best will run well below capacity. Some will stand idle for the duration. Donald Nelson said frankly that there are not enough raw materials to keep all the plants already built running full tilt, let alone all the new ones. In fact, Robert Nathan, chief of Nelson's Planning Board, believes that some of the half-finished structures should be torn down to recover the materials that were put in them, put them to use in more...