Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pooh with Alterations. Casual, wisecracking Michael Di Salle, 43, does not give off those portentous creaking sounds that Washingtonians expect from a big wheel in the Government. He does not look much like one, either. He looks more like a jolly caricature-a real-life Winnie-the-Pooh, with slight alterations made at Walt Disney's drawing board. He does not reach quite high enough (5 ft. 5% in.); he weighs too much (215 Ibs.); he balloons out too far at the middle (44-in. waist). A bashful mustache perches below his nose. His mouth, always ready to smile...
...stand on a street corner and watch Americans on the move: hunched behind the wheel, zooming off the mark, not a split second lost. Walking fast, self-assured, purposeful, well-fed, healthy. WOW, what a people...
Then in Chicago, another committee investigating team learned from a mobster that Harry Russell was a longtime partner of Tony Accardo himself. Later, checking the records of the Erie & Buffalo policy wheel, the Chicago team found a 1949 income-tax report made out by Accardo and Guzik as partners. They were getting $278,666 from the wheel, the report showed, but investigators were more interested in another item further down. The partners had claimed a loss of $7,252 on the S & G Syndicate in Florida. That frugal claim was the first solid proof that Russell had muscled...
...most Americans don't know their own strength. To the men who man and manage the nation's production lines, the project, enormous as it was, did not seem in the least fantastic. To Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, the man who had been seated at the wheel of U.S. production, it was, quite simply, a job which could be done because it had to be done (see EDUCATION). As the nation's Mr. Production, he has not the slightest doubt that U.S. brain and muscle can accomplish anything that is asked of it-and double...
...Plata. Among the other big moneymakers were fruit hucksters, waiters and farmers, who were soon buying Cadillacs, Buicks and beach property. Known only by nicknames such as El Crespo (Curly) El Vasquito (Little Basque), or Juancito (Johnny), each gang member had his own assigned wheel which he had studied thoroughly. The management routine of shuffling wheels apparently failed because the gamblers knew the wheels so well they could identify them by the tiniest mar or scratch, the faintest off-shade of color in the varnish...