Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss (who roared like a cracked boiler after reading Lillian Smith's best-selling story of miscegenation, Strange Fruit) directed his city commissioners to set up a five-man board to censor literature...
Present piles (at Oak Ridge, Hanford and Chicago) are kept cool, but power piles will run at high temperature. Among the reacting uranium rods of a power pile will circulate a chemically inert gas, hot as a dragon's breath, deadly with radioactivity. This will heat a conventional boiler, yielding high-pressure steam, which, the scientists hope, will not be too radioactive to use in a turbine...
...there's a first-class reason. Every day, at least 18 hours a day, radio puts on a different show almost every 15 minutes. Show me any other medium-the movies, the theater, anything-that burns up creative talent at that rate. It's like a boiler you continually stoke; it calls for an awful lot of coal. And there simply isn't enough to go around. Considering that, I think radio is doing an excellent...
...AVCO now makes: radio equipment, FM & television sets, refrigerators, gas & electric stoves, frozen-food storage units, automatic garage-door openers, farm tools, military and commercial aircraft, buses, marine, industrial, bus, and aircraft engines, heating and boiler units, machine tools & dies, kitchen sinks and cabinets...
Trained Sleeper. In Buffalo, Douglas Mercer boarded a train, snoozed away the trip to Rochester. His berth: atop the locomotive boiler, beside a sizzling steam valve...