Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wheels for Pershing. Making such profits is relatively new to Budd. The late Edward Gowen Budd, who founded the company* 38 years ago, was often willing to toss good profits overboard in order to try a new technological twist. He built the first all-steel auto body for Charles Nash (then president of G.M.) in 1912, made the first U.S. all-steel auto wheel to fit General John J. Pershing's staff cars during World War I. The manufacturing company expanded with the auto industry to the point where it grossed $24.7 million in 1925, but it never made...
...Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co.; four years later he founded the independent Budd Wheel Corp., merged into the present Budd...
...handful of universities, with ground studies and physical conditioning. He set up a number of inland centers for primary training, most of them hundreds of miles from tidewater. Some of his airmen got their first carrier practice on the Great Lakes, on bizarre training carriers converted from paddle-wheel steamers. In two years he was turning out 20,000 superbly trained pilots annually...
...month later, with Designer Ted Jones at the wheel, Slo-Mo-Shun IV won motor-boating's famed Gold Cup. Last week on the Detroit River Slo-Mo-Shun took the last big prize within reach. It ran away with the international Harmsworth Trophy and, in the doing, pretty well established itself as the greatest speed boat ever built...
With Designer Jones out of action with a broken hand, Sayres turned the wheel over to steely little Lou Fageol (rhymes with gauge all). Lou, 43, a racedriver since 1928, had never competed for the Harmsworth, but in the first of two 40-mile heats he hit the starting line almost at the crack of the gun, was never headed. Slo-Mo-Shun's 30-ft. rooster-tail wake steadily drew away from Horace Dodge's My Sweetie, Jack Schafer's Stick Crust II, and Harold Wilson's Miss Canada IV. Slo-Mo-Shun...