Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incident that gave Brazilians a bad moment. Driving up into the mountains to lunch with Ernesto G. Fontes, a wealthy Brazilian businessman who had also entertained Franklin Roosevelt on his visit to Brazil in 1936, the President's heavy car skidded on the slippery road. The left rear wheel went over a low curb and came to rest a few feet from a precipitous decline. Truman refused to get out as Secret Service men heaved the car back on to the road. Said Harry Truman: "I'm all right. Why, I have done the same thing myself many...
...Atomic Energy Commission announced that plutonium, core of the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, had, to a certain extent, been tamed. It would still be a long time before atomic energy would turn a wheel or drive a plane, but the new "fast reactor" (see SCIENCE) was a long step beyond the apocalyptic vision of Bikini...
...Patty Conklin's "Mile of Merriment" Midway, they saw Terrell Jacobs' circus and Joe LaFlamme and his trained moose, won gewgaws at ring games, rode the ferris wheel, played bingo. When they were too frazzled and footsore to walk another step, they plunked down $3 for a seat at the Olsen & Johnson show, or ate at one of the 16 restaurants and 75 "grab joints" on the exhibition grounds...
Squeaking Wheel. The syndicate had been formed with State Department blessing. Ever since early this year, when the Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum announced they would cut in on the Saudi Arabian oil melon long monopolized by Standard of California and the Texas Co. (TIME, March 24), the independents had screamed for their share. They protested that foreign oil imports were cutting into their domestic markets...
...gave me more pleasure than getting out of that hot, hard bed." Said Attilio Bertini: "It's good of America to help. The ships coming back to us is the best thing. They can bring raw materials for our industries, and we can put our shoulders to the wheel. But we hope those ships will never bring war materials." Renato de Santis, a Communist, said (and many non-Communists agreed): "The Americans will make us give something in exchange. They treat us like the poor devils we are. It is the way of the world...