Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well did Mr. Gann know that for his wife to reach her eminence, many an official wheel had had to. turn. The Vice President had protested against a State Department ruling which failed to accord Mrs. Gann full recognition (TIME, April 15). The matter was in the hands of Secretary of State Stimson...
...represented are Bendix Corp., Electric Auto-Lite, Wright and Curtiss. The new aviation accessory corporation will be capitalized at $140,000,000 President of Bendix Aviation Corp. is Vincent Bendix, inventor of the Bendix Drive, now used on more than 30,000.000 automobiles, developer, also, of the Bendix Four Wheel Brake. Tallish, well-built, with brown hair and a boyish complexion that shows no signs of his having been in existence for almost haF a century (born 1881), Mr. Bendix is nevertheless alarmed concerning embonpoint. Lately he acquired an elastic belt to pre vent undue Bendix expansion. An incident...
...Early one morning a large unmarked car rolled out of the White House grounds. At the wheel was Mrs. Hoover. With her rode Mrs. Adolph Ochs, Mrs. Edgar Rickard, Miss Margaret Rickard. They drove around the Tidal Basin, saw the cherry blossoms, circled the Lincoln Memorial. As Mrs. Hoover turned homeward into West Executive Ave. a motorist swung into a parking space, missed it, backed out to try again, thus blocking traffic. Mrs. Hoover gave her horn an impatient toot. Not recognizing her, the motorist signaled the First Lady to "pipe down." She did, smiling...
...room was violently foreign, with frescoes by a sign painter−or a barn-painter: Isola Bella. Fiesole, Castel Sant' Angelo. But Sam did not look at them. He−who but once in his life had attended a Rotary lunch−looked at the Rotary wheel, and his smile was curiously timid. There was no reason for it apparent to him, but suddenly these banners made him feel that in the chill ignobility of exile he was still Some...
Sizer, summing up for Brown, gave a speech full of facts, which went far toward winning the audience. He offered the radio and newspaper as examples of advertising's contributions to our life; and recalled that many new inventions, such as four-wheel brakes, have been popularized by this professed evil...