Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME you published an article entitled "The Drive." In connection with this article you published a footnote which reads as follows: "One competitor which did not last was the Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Auto Co., founded by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich...
There was no such company as Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. organized in 1919, or any other time. We and our predecessor, Oshkosh Motor Truck Manufacturing Co. have manufactured continuously since 1917 four wheel drive trucks under the registered trade-mark Oshkosh, which trucks are known as the Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Trucks. Oshkosh trucks are widely known throughout Wisconsin and other parts...
...when he faced Heavyweight Nathan Mann, a fairly well-rated boxer, as a headliner in Madison Square Garden. Suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission last winter because he insisted upon, training on beer and hot dogs in his Orange saloon and doing his road work at the wheel of an automobile, Bartender Galento, whose face is the color of biscuit dough, had been reinstated for no apparent reason three weeks...
...Mussolini outranks in social significance the Province of Littoria, reclaimed since 1931 from the noxious swamplands of the Pontine Marshes by Italian ex-soldiers for themselves and their families. One morning last week, before the Germans should arrive in their pomp (see p. 16), Il Duce slipped behind the wheel of his little sports car, whizzed out of Rome to do at Pomezia (see map) a bit of informal work as a stonemason- which used to be his trade...
...with the professional touch he has shown in cornerstoning other cities of Littoria (see map), namely Littoria, the capital of the Province, Sabaudia, Pontinia and Aprilia. "Ceremonies such as these require no speeches -for facts are more eloquent than words!" said the Dictator shortly, before climbing back behind the wheel of his car. Up went cheers in which the Italian peasants were joined by a delegation of Japanese university students who shrilled: "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...