Word: blowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snow Train. The New York Central Railroad developed a snow blower that harnesses the exhaust of a B-36 jet bomber engine to blast its freight-yard tracks and switches free of snow. Mounted on a modified caboose with a huge nozzle, the engine can blow away snow...
...Hoods," well-ventilated cubicles necessary for experiments with noxious gases will be located--along with their blower motors--on the roof. The roof will also have a greenhouse...
Winter Swimming. Inventor Walter Bird of Buffalo demonstrated a plastic cover for winterizing outdoor swimming pools. The pool cover is supported by raising inside air pressure slightly with an electric blower. Bird says that sunshine makes the water comfortably warm in fall and spring, but recommends a water heater in northern climates in midwinter. Estimated cost of cover, which is stored away in summer, is less than $1.50 per square foot of area enclosed...
...show you what competition is." Nate Twining had right back at him. "I wish," he said, "that Mr. Khrushchev would appear before Congress and tell Congress the Soviet Union wants to compete with the United States . . . The U.S. needs competition. Right now we are not even at half blower [airplane slang for half power]." Replied Khrushchev: "They won't let me in." That caused gay laughter...
While washing down Southern fried chicken with orange juice in Charlotte, N.C., torrid Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, a blower of wild-valved cadenzas that could never be confused with the strains of Bandleader Guy ("the sweetest music this side of Heaven") Lombardo, double-crossed his own feverish admirers. Between gulps, Satchmo satchmoed: "Lombardo's the greatest. He is relaxin'. He got a good style, and he ain't tryin' to fool nobody. The new cats around now, they ain't provin' nothin...