Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant-the first new plant to come Muncie's way in a quarter-century. The plant is now almost completed and should provide 500 new jobs in the fall. "Muncie is on the move," says William F. Craig, vice president of the WLBC TV-radio station and a wheel in the Chamber of Commerce. "We're on the threshold of the greatest employment in our history." Jim Smith, the patternmaker, is studying drafting at night school and reading public-library books on transformers in hopes of getting a job at Westinghouse. But the Smith family has a dark...
...these early years of the Space Age, physics and metaphysics sometimes try to get into each other's act. The current issue of the magazine Analog Science Fact-Fiction, for instance, contains a 16-page attempt to prove that Old Testament Ezekiel's famed vision of the wheel may not have been a vision at all but a "careful, truthful and self-possessed" report of an earth probe by extra-terrestrial beings...
...threefold: 1) a sincere desire to make Brazil more "independent" internationally, 2) the belief that to hold the allegiance of Brazil's left-wing voters he must make a show of "neutralism," 3) a profound suspicion that even in these days of "disinterested" foreign aid programs, the wheel that squeaks still gets the most grease. Almost certainly Jânio hopes that at least an incidental result of his diplomatic flirtation with Communist nations will be whopping increases in Kennedy's proposed aid to Brazil...
Nevertheless, Borgward's freewheeling inventiveness often captured the public fancy. One of his earliest successes was a 1924 three-wheel truck, still widely copied. In the postwar years, Borgward put out the bestselling LP-300 Minicar, catching the bugmobile craze on the rise. If Borgward had concentrated on tiny cars, he might easily have dominated the mini-car market. But after he had sold 350,000 of them, he grew bored, moved on to expand his bigger cars-and failure...
...recognized the car buff who told her: "About the car, change the oil and filter every 3,000 miles. Grease it every 1,000 miles." The advice about snow tires, having the wheel bearings packed, checking the muffler, was all familiar. The constant concern about John's mother and father reminded Connie of the close-knit family she had married into. "I know Dad and Mom are my best friends in the world along with you and your folks...