Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foolhardy. With the $240 second money snugged away (for less than 15 minutes' work), Schindler went home, ready to drive again at six different tracks in the next seven days. With him, intact, went his reputation as the shrewdest of eastern midget drivers. After 16 years behind the wheel, Schindler knows what can and what cannot be done with the snarling little cars; foolishness he leaves to the foolhardy...
Detroit's Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. (6,000 employees) bought a plant near Pittsburgh and planned to turn out 30% of its manufacturing there. The replacement of basing points by f.o.b. pricing had boosted the company's steel bill $9.20 a ton, and it would save money by being at Pittsburgh. Encouraged by the plant shift, the Pittsburgh Industrial Development Council began tootling its horn to attract other fugitives from freight charges. But Detroit, which uses twice as much steel as it produces, started a campaign to make more. Said. its board of commerce: "We have iron...
Johnny West pushed the truck driver into the bushes, shot him in the head and chest, climbed behind the truck's wheel. Daniels got into one of the new canvas-draped cars in the rear. They rolled on unchallenged through one of Ohio's greatest man hunts...
...desperation- teeth gritted, eyes squinted. He is the opposite of Charley Paddock, who was what trackmen call a "driver." Because of Paddock's high knee action and short back kick, people some times swore that "he ran sitting down." Patton, whose legs revolve' with a smooth wheel-like motion, is a "floater...
...Open Road. "Reverend Mike" has set the maximum enrollment at 30-"a busload." Whenever masters and boys feel the itch, the school piles into its bus, with one of the masters at the wheel, and goes singing on its way. Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...