Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire station, and my first thought was to crash into that and bring her to a stop. But the sidewalk was packed with kids.";) Still praying, Rollerman Solt headed the roller into a steel utility pole. The roller snapped the pole like a toothpick. Solt jerked the steering wheel all the way over and jumped...
...days the big Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. plant at West Allis, Wis. had been strikebound. Not a wheel had turned on $45,000,000 of defense orders. Late last week about a third (2,500) of the plant's workers went back to work-at the request of the Navy and OPM }. What effect did this one shutdown have on U. S. defense? Iron Age found that the Allis-Chalmers strike had hampered the work of around 30 firms and projects, more than a third of all defense contracts. The Allis-Chalmers strike had held up work...
...shock-rocked company, and to plan a new capital structure, but also to recover any assets he could. Most of the directors from whom a lawsuit (for negligence) might shake important money, were the former owners of the local wholesale houses, who had become vital cogs in the management wheel. If, in bargaining with these directors for a settlement, he got too tough, they might well have got tough in return by suing to get their companies back or leaving McKesson and taking their local customers with them. But if he let the directors off too easily, Trustee Wardall could...
with The Groaner trucking around the studio stage in an old pair of slacks and the tails of his gaudy shirts hanging out, kidding the men in the control booth or joking with wheel-chaired Connie Boswell...
Last week Budd Wheel Co. (Detroit) celebrated the production of its 1,000,000th shell on a U. S. defense contract. Budd also told an enlightening little story of defense production. To retool the Budd plant, make the first 1,000,000 shells, took 15 months. Time allotted for the next 1,000,000: two months...