Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed assembly-line purveyor of arthritis treatments (by foot yanking); of a heart attack; near his home, Williamsburg, Ont. He did most of his work seated in a swivel chair in his yard, whirling around to queues of patients converging on him like the spokes of a wheel. He charged $1 a visit (usually less than a minute), and at the height of his popularity attracted as many as 1,000 patients...
Encased in a wheel chair, the egomaniacal, asp-tongued celebrity commandeers the household, forces his hosts to use only the upstairs, runs up a $784 phone bill conversing with all points of the compass, tries to smash his secretary's (Bette Davis) love affair, persuades his hosts' children to run away from home...
Last week as the wheel ticked around to the tell-off it looked as if the bet had been placed not only riskily, but well. It looked as if Japan might win far more than she had staked and might win it the only way she could, quickly. Already she had achieved naval supremacy in the western Pacific, air supremacy in the Philippines and Malaya. She had taken Guam, Wake, Mindanao, Hong Kong, Sarawak, most of Luzon, nearly half of Malaya...
Almost unknown to U.S. citizens, M-H nevertheless is the king of its field: the world's most enormous trucks, all-wheel drive, extra-heavy duty, able to haul almost anything almost anywhere. Only ten years old, it has sold thousands of square-hooded, locomotive-like behemoths to lumbermen, miners, oilmen, highway departments. In the Louisiana oil fields M-H trucks are called "Mud Cats" because they slosh through hub-deep mud as though equipped with web wheels, in Western lumber camps they climb rough 40° grades so easily they are known as "Mountain Goats...
Because of his World War I stint, Herrington knew that the tremendous traction of his all-wheel trucks would be useful in anyone's army. So he prepared for the boom; 30 days after the Germans broke into Poland, Herrington broke ground for a fivefold expansion of plant facilities. Then he expanded again & again. His output is now 20-25 times that of August 1939, still going...