Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he was ready to fly Señor de la Cierva started his tractor motor with his landing wheel brakes on. Then he had a bystander give his vanes a shove. They wobbled around about once a minute. He speeded up his motor and the propeller slipstream made the vanes rotate rapidly, about 130 r.p.m., according to their speedometer. The vanes vibrated. To smooth that out he idled his motor for five seconds. Then he released his brakes, sped up the motor again, taxied to his takeoff. The vanes were turning smoothly at 120 r. p. m. and creating...
...Odessa, Mo., one Farmer Shupee, his wife, son and daughter-in-law were attacked in their auto by a swarm of bees. Mrs. Shupee at the wheel, sorely stung, sideswiped the car ahead, drove into a ditch, killed Farmer Shupee...
When a boy-child makes Solomon's temple out of blocks, then sets it afire, or pours water over the red carpet to turn the wheel of his mill, what can grandmother do but send him out to play...
...another new front-wheel-drive car. It is not a miracle, not "marvelous," "sensational," nor "at last the perfect automobile." It is not built for speed, cannot perform the impossible. But it will claim to be a man-made machine with many exclusive advantages. It will be "first production car of its kind."* So said Auburn Automobile Co., in advance notice of its Cord car, named after its President Errett Lobban Cord, to be priced between the Auburn ($995 to $2,095) and the Dusenberg ($8,500 chassis...
...Apparently an oblique answer to the new $4,500, front-wheel-drive Ruxton, "America's First Front-Wheel-Drive Motor Car," nationally advertised last week (TIME...