Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suspicion pointed early to No. 12 cylinder, whose barrel had broken clear through. The CAB men sent the cylinder parts to the National Bureau of Standards, where laboratory examination showed several small fatigue cracks that had joined to form a single large crack one-third of the way around the cylinder. The steel itself proved sound, with no microscopic abnormalities that might have caused the cracks. So there must be other culprits...
...standards and better mosquito control to hold down that old Southern malady, malaria. "I can hardly remember a summer when I wasn't sick with the chills and fever of malaria," Collins said last week. "I used to drink Dr. Groves's tasteless chill tonic by the barrel. I guess it was all that pulled a lot of us through. Well, when I became a legislator I got a chance to work for remedial legislation. Now there are doctors who have practiced in Florida for years and never seen a case of malaria. It's a good...
with their entire membership. "We're going in lock, stock and barrel," bristled Vice President James R. (for Riddle) Hoffa, whose growingly visible power within his union suggests an undercover undercutting of Teamster Boss Dave Beck...
Quantity vs. Quality. Why the "restrictionist" policy at Harvard? Surely one reason, and an important one, is the emphasis on quality. In this connection, the following observation is of some interest. In the thirties is used to be said that Harvard had to scrape the bottom of the barrel in order to admit a normal size class. Now we hear that we have several times as many good applicants as we can admit...
...less spectacular; it will be the replacement of the carburetor by a fuel-injection system by at least one automaker. Long used in aircraft and racing cars, fuel injection has been thought too tricky and expensive for stock cars. But the rapidly rising cost of the new four-barrel carburetors has closed the cost gap while several practical stock-car systems have been developed. In present carburetors, gasoline is mixed with air, then sucked into the cylinders through the manifold. With a fuel-injection system, small pumps attached to each cylinder spray the fuel-air mixture under pressure directly into...