Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge electrical and heavy-equipment industrial manufacturer, is responsible for a number of already proved systems for accomplishing this aim. One of them, called a rotary parking tower, has been installed as an integral part of several Tokyo office buildings. It works on the same principle as a Ferris wheel: cars are parked on gondola-like platforms that are rotated up and around by a single attendant. When a driver calls for his car, the attendant pushes a console button and the wheel brings platform and car down to ground level. Costing about $4,000 per space, the system...
...away from Humphrey. But then, logically at least, he had no prospects at all when he began his campaign nearly nine months ago. As for Humphrey, he is uneasily aware that he does not inspire most Americans. However, he reasons that after the convention he will be the only wheel in town as far as the Democrats are concerned. And he is convinced that, faced with the alternative of voting for Nixon, the party will find him more and more attractive as time goes...
...anger comes out more strongly in "This Wheel's on Fire." Again, there is a story, someone to meet again some day, lace to tie in a sailor's knot, but what does it all mean? All we know...
...This wheel's on fire, rolling down the road...
...This wheel shall explode...