Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparatus which wakes a drowsing automobile driver by blowing ammonia vapor into his face when he relaxes his grip on the wheel...
brakes and a steering wheel. In the end, treating himself to an autobiographer's rarest pleasure, he describes his own peaceful death...
Soon FCC findings on super power set 50 Kw. as the maximum strength for commercial transmission. Not so rapid was the progress of FCC's monopoly-investigating committee, first presided over by Chairman McNinch, later by fat-jowled, cautious Thaddeus Harold Brown, Republican wheel horse of the Commission. Starting in November 1938, with NBC's David Sarnoff as its first witness, the committee rambled on until the following May. Then it began to brood. Not until last week did it make known the results of its inquiry. They were enough to send a network tycoon gibbering...
...half-mile, brick-&-asphalt oval without a mechanic at his side-relying on a mirror to inform him of what his opponents were doing behind his back. Since that day, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been the proving ground for many another automotive innovation: balloon tires, four-wheel brakes, Ethyl gasoline, straight-eight motors. But to auto-racing fans, the annual Indianapolis Memorial Day classic is just a gigantic picnic, the Kentucky Derby of the horseless carriage...
...widely audible pipe against the New Deal, The New Yorker, TIME ("major house organ for the American business class"), the post 1930 Soviet cinema. No less snappish is the Partisan Review theatre critic, Mary McCarthy (Mrs. Edmund Wilson), who breaks Broadway butterfly hits on an ironbound esthetic wheel. At the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases. "It is something less than an exaggeration," writes Critic Morris with his characteristic faint shudder, "to state that the painting and sculpture being 'encouraged' in America ... is more esthetically barren and tasteless than anything that...