Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orbiting Wheel: supervisor at a busy launching...
EVERYBODY-even the drum patt-er-was plugged in and counting, anxious to see a cooking bird turn green. Suddenly, the orbiting wheel made an eyeball instrumentation and inputted a hold: a ball peen adjustment could mean the difference between a red bird and a green one. What if it turned red? EGADS...
...during World War II had a lot to do with his entering the ministry. One engine in his P-38 quit and he had to try for a forced landing on a tiny strip between foothills and ocean. His plan: to hit the strip so hard that the nose wheel would break and thus stop the plane quickly. The nose wheel "refused to snap for some reason or other," but Jackson managed to stop the plane anyway. "I got out and then my heart almost stopped. Under my wings were two big bombs: I had forgotten all about them...
Right the Second Time. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Marion Murphy, 32, outraged when a cop stopped her for doing 40 in a 30-m.p.h. zone, jumped behind the wheel again, took off so fast that tire-sprayed gravel broke a squad car headlight, accelerated to 50 in a 25-m.p.h. zone, told the officer when stopped again: "Now you have something to arrest...
Supplying the demand, the town doubled in population, brought prosperity to thousands of people near by. Every fourth house became a small home factory with at least one buffing wheel. Of the 1,695 plants, the biggest had 13 workers; most had under four. It was hard, unhealthy work, and almost all the 11,000 workers have lost fingers on buffing, grinding or cutting wheels. But the price seemed well worth the return; many made as much as $70 a month, double the average Japanese wage. Tsubame was soon getting 43% of its revenue from the industry. Last year...