Word: awheel
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Nowadays many a trucker, rooted out of bed at night, is called upon to climb behind awheel and high-tail over the road to deliver a load to a waiting ship, or a defense plant slowed down for a lack of parts. (A few hours after Pearl Harbor, a seven-truck caravan rumbled out of Massachusetts with freight for a Pacific convoy, despite a Midwest blizzard made the transcontinental run in eight days.) Trucks move heavy tonnage of foodstuffs and supplies to Army camps; make hour-by-hour deliveries of parts from subcontractors to prime producers. Tractors (engine...
...even the walking he had to do for the Post Office Department got to be too much. But while other postmen with the same problem met it by foot baths or retirement, Mailman Smith used his head. Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post. Footsore grey-coats throughout the land watched his progress, hoped that it spelled an end to bunions and broken arches...
...this crisis; the qualities of sand are admirable, not only on icy streets but on icy sidewalks; not all the sidewalks have been sanded, and thrills await the traveller on the more remote byways. Quick snow removal, and a liberal application of sand, would make progress afoot and awheel less picturesque, but more efficient...
...Allen, Jr.; "Trouting on the North Shore," by W. O. Henderson; "Wheeling thro' Western England," by Alice L. Moque; "A Fin de Cycle Incident," by Edna C. Jackson; "Yale at Henley," by W. B. Curtis; "Wheeling Through Virginia," by J. B. Carrington; "Len's World Tour Awheel"; "Military Cycling Thro' the Dakotas," by Lieutenant R. C. Cabell; "America's Turf-Transition," by Francis Trevelyan; "Getting into Commission," by R. B. Burchard; "Haverford College Cricket," by A. C. Thomas, and the usual editorials, poems, records...
...Beaumont Kennedy; "Modern Snipe," by T. S. Van Dyke; "Shooting at Swatow," by A. B. Hoff; "The Wizard of the Cascade;" by S. C. Kendall; "Hunting the California Lion," by L. D. Rees; "A Thread of Mystery," by Louise D. Mitchell; "Cruising on the Gulf;" "Lenz's World Tour Awheel;" "Rugged Labrador," by R. G. Taber; "Cycling in Mid-Atlantic," by O. Howarth; "Paddling a Pipanti in Honduras," by E. W. Perry; "About the Balearics," by Chas. Edwards; "Rabbiting," by H. Rave; "The New Hampshire National Guard," by G. H. Moses, and the usual editorials, records, poems...