Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death in a forced landing at East Boston Airport yesterday afternoon by the skillful flying of his instructress. Gertrude S. Meserve, 19. Brown, oue of Miss Meserve's ten Harvard students, was on a cross-country training flight into northern New England when the undercarriage was Smashed and a wheel torn...
...President came in five minutes before the broadcast, on his small rubber-tired wheel chair, pushed by George Fields, assistant to Prettyman, the President's valet. Mr. Roosevelt, in a dark blue serge suit, a black bow tie, was in high good humor. In the room's warmth he mopped his big, tanned face from time to time with a large white handkerchief...
Died. William Joseph ("Billy") Hill, 41, author of such back-home song hits as The Last Round-Up, The Old Spinning Wheel, Wagon Wheels and They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree; of heart disease; in Boston...
When the American Express Co. sold off its motorized wheel chairs after the New York World's Fair, Fair President Harvey Gibson bought three to scoot around his estate...
...officer's voice crackled in the scout-car radios. The four-wheel drives bit into the sand, and the cars lunged side by side over the plain. Where the bondocks were low, the light-armored cars, carrying three-man crews and two machine guns, could do 10 m.p.h. Where the hummocks were four and five feet high, 4 m.p.h. was the top. The cars were slow, but the bondocks did not stop them...