Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just plain spectators ran into a barrel of minor complications. Some groups, with visions of perpetual motion machines and gadgets, devoted their energies to tracking down the Mechanical Room, only to come finally on a sort of boiler room packed with air-conditioning machinery...
...pots over wood fires. Grimy refugees hovered nearby with begging bowls. Petty traders, going uprailway to barter cloth and matches for sesame oil and tobacco, swarmed with their bundles on the rooftops of overpacked third class coaches, on couplings, on the coal tender, on the catwalk around the locomotive boiler...
...continuous caster is the offspring of a marriage between a steel producer and a user. Cleveland's Republic Steel Corp. did the first research, then got the boiler-making Babcock & Wilcox Co. to solve the enigma of high-speed transfer of heat. Republic, which has millions tied up in conventional equipment, holds that the revolution is still far off, but has agreed to license the process to anyone who wants...
...Sayre, 62, the tall, mild-looking president of giant Corn Products Refining Co. Like many another top NAMster, Sayre started his career at the bottom. After graduating from the University of Richmond and Lehigh University, Sayre went to work for Corn Products in 1908 as a $75-a-month boiler washer. He climbed the ladder rung by rung and never lost his modesty on the way. He likes to keep his door open to any one of his 5,000 employees who has a complaint or an idea...
...diamond and ruby wrist watch, a television receiver, radio-phonograph, $2,000 in cash, an airplane, a $1,500 beaver coat, a home workshop, a gas refrigerator, a gas range, a home freezer, a vacuum cleaner, suits and topcoats for a family, a $1,000 diamond ring, a heating boiler, a complete housepainting, a houseful of furniture...