Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state that the Rickenbacker automobile was the only one equipped with four-wheel brakes (during its period of production). This is incorrect. The 1921 straight-eight Duesenberg was equipped with "simultaneously acting four-wheel brakes, controlled by a single pedal." Note also that these were hydraulic, not mechanical, brakes...
...until he was 15 did Birdsall Sweet finally lose his fear of being away from the respirator. He learned to eat outside it. His wheel chair was put in a station wagon which carried him around the Dutchess County countryside. But then he began suffering from hay fever and eczema, and kidney trouble began to appear. At 16 he had pneumonia...
When everybody in the company knows what everybody else does, President White thinks his employees will have a better idea of their importance. Lorenzo Faba, a Filipino wheel tractor operator, thought so, too. When he got back from the cannery, he observed in his Sunday-best English: "We should wish with hopes that we must continue to cooperate with confidence to each other to make our company successful and so with our livelihood...
...formed the Rickenbacker Motor Co. His dream child, the six-cylinder Rickenbacker automobile, was unveiled in New York in 1922. After four years, the Rickenbacker flopped. It was too advanced, and the automobile industry "beat my head in"-in part with advertisements warning the public that four-wheel brakes (with which no automobile but the Rickenbacker was equipped) were dangerous...
...used with GCA too. In one such system designed by Gilfillan Bros., Inc., a radar picks up the approaching airplane and automatically sends out coded orders to put it on the desired glide path. George translates the orders into the proper movements of the airplane's wheel and throttle, and steers the plane down toward the field. The system can keep track of six incoming airplanes simultaneously. If one of them has no automatic equipment, it can be talked down by voice...