Word: boiler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inch-gauge, 500-yard track scooted two not-too-reasonable facsimiles of the Emett trains (rechristened "Far Tottering and Oyster Creek"), past weird scenery erected along the line: flat-footed cows, crooked lampposts hung with lobster pots. One train had a candy-striped engine with a balloon-shaped boiler and an elegant, winged smokestack; the other had spidery wheels, a teapot boiler and potted pink geraniums on top. Midgets dressed up as policemen were hired the first week to direct the delighted crowds which flocked about Britain's own Toonerville Trolley...
These figures, most of them vague because of security reasons, do not tell the whole story. U.S. industry was preparing to prove again that it is, as Viscount Grey once remarked to Winston Churchill, like "a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate." Among the fires now being lighted...
...Complete Boiler Plant. The apparatus also handles sabotage and espionage, spreading discontent, and setting off occasional riots among the West Germans. But its prime project is illegal trade-to use the U.S.-supported industrial economy of Western Germany as an arsenal for Communism. West Germans are forbidden to sell arms, munitions-making machinery and important strategic items to Red territory. But many West Germans have been skirting the ban. During the first six months of the Korean war, West German trade with Communist China jumped 2,700%; iron & steel exports to the Chinese Reds alone went from nearly zero...
...Soviet zone on an ostensibly "legal" basis, with the help of phony invoices, bribed or lax custom guards, intricate shipping techniques. On one occasion, 89 separate pieces of machinery were passed through West German custom guards; reassembled on the other side, they turned out to be a complete boiler factory. Other supplies move through "triangular trade"-a West German industrialist will ship a smelting plant, for example, to Belgium and from there it will be shipped to East Germany. In addition to this "legal" trade, the Communists are getting smuggled goods from West Germany at a rate which some estimate...
Columnist Walter Lippmann, after 20 hard years at the job, announced that he was taking a "long" leave from his New York Herald Tribune column chores. "Anyone who has been that long in the boiler room of the ship," he wrote, "had better come up on deck for a breath of fresh air and a look at the horizon." Besides, he was anxious to get going on his new book, The Image of Man, meant to be a successor to two earlier books, A Preface to Morals and The Good Society...