Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phenomenon called the Secret Rapture (a plucking of God's saints out of the mass of mankind to rule with Christ) will occur before the series of calamities known as the Tribulation. They even have a dashboard sticker that warns passengers: IF I'M RAPTURED, TAKE THE WHEEL...
...prepared to prove that it's mild indeed compared to the mania which swept the country between 1892 and 1898. In those days the army made pedalers out of cavalrymen, police speed traps caught "scorchers," and Diamond Jim Brady paid $10,000 for Lillian Russell's wheel. It has mother-of-pearl handlebars, spokes encrusted with jewels and-scandalous!-a custom-fitted seat...
...Then Chapin bought the famous Jeep line from Kaiser Industries for $70 million. Jeep had been a money loser for Kaiser, but AMC made it profitable, steering it into the recreational-vehicle market, which Chapin figures has doubled in the past three years. New versions of the original four-wheel drive machine soon began appearing as pickups, campers and station wagons. Jeeps now account for 20% of AMC's $1.4 billion annual sales...
Then the station switched back to the national network. The cameras in Alabams brought in a live interview with George Wallace who was sitting in a wheel chair before a fireplace in some ante-bellum mansion. "Well, Aaah think both candidates are proposing programs that Aaah proposed when Aaah ran for president in 1968," Wallace drawled. Someone in the dorm stuck his head into the room: "Is that Brooke?" he asked...
...Institute is trying to help us not to re-invest the wheel once we get to Washington. I hope I'll get a head start over my colleagues," Steelman said yesterday...