Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Austin J. King of San Rafael, Calif, banked his heavy-bellied C46 over Seoul airport one night this week, pushed the stick forward and prepared to land. Suddenly the pilot noticed that the plane's hydraulic system was out of order, and that one of the landing wheels was stuck in its casing. King pried open the trap door in the floor of his cockpit, wriggled into the narrow passage in the wing of his aircraft and tried to lower the wheel by hand. For 90 minutes he wrestled in the darkness of the wing while his copilot...
William Bennett Bean, a young resident physician at Cincinnati General Hospital, was alarmed by a patient who complained that his heart was making a noise "like a paddle wheel on a river." Dr. Bean could hear the noise clearly at a distance of two feet; through the stethoscope it was so loud that it hurt his ears. The patient recovered without any special treatment. But the experience made Dr. Bean a student of booming hearts...
...their slump. Steel demand was still ahead of production, but the gap was narrowing in some products. There was a potential danger signal in business inventories, which rose to $77.3 billion at the end of June, $4.8 billion higher than a year ago. But there was a balance wheel in the fact that sales were up $5.3 billion above last June. That left the ratio of sales to inventory unchanged...
...Life. For Murray Lincoln, cooperatives represent a way of life as well as a way of doing business. He sees the co-ops as an answer to Communism in Europe and Asia, and as a balance wheel against unfettered private enterprise...
Sleepy police patrols in Pilsen hardly glanced at it. By 5 a.m. the car had reached the barbed-wire border area. Vaclav wrenched the wheel, lurched off the road and into the wire barrier. Czech border guards stood by, mouths agape, as the machine snorted through the wire and crossed into West Germany. None fired, or even raised a Tommy gun. The car rumbled westward for several miles before West German police caught up with it. Vaclav "unbuttoned" the armor and out tumbled eight happy Czechs. "I want to get to my husband and the U.S. the fastest way," said...