Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere on the seven seas a 19-year-old Navy fireman was inside a minesweeper's boiler, chipping off scale, when somebody turned on the steam. Three times the boy plunged at the "curtain of steam and boiling water," across the only exit, twice collided with an electric fan before he got out. When he reached a hospital ship an hour and a half later, he was probably the most severely burned man on medical record. Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire had scorched 55% of Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson's body, and his survival was considered...
Graduated from training, WACs now fill 239 different kinds of.jobs and in some cases have filled them better than men. Among other things, WACs are opticians, surgical technicians, chemists, surveyors, electricians, radio repairmen, control-tower operators, boiler inspectors, riveters, welders, tractor mechanics, balloon-gas handlers, dog trainers...
What gives this highly unremarkable tale its remarkable lift is no less its fidelity to life than its sense of fun. Though its comic edge is keen, Sally's and Bill's unconventional housekeeping is rich in bedspread and double-boiler touches that evoke delighted recognitions. And though lightly handled, Sally and Bill are pretty convincing people. Much of the comedy comes out of the piquant conflict of their own temperaments-out of Sally's young need to be dramatic and Bill's grown-up insistence on being downright. Their easy, sprightly, sometimes funny talk stays...
...October 1937 two N.A.C.A. engineers patented a continuous system for using exhaust gases to vaporize water in a boiler built around the exhaust pipe. The vapor traveled into a long, perforated pipe inside the front edge of the wing; the condensed vapor drained back into the boiler. The boiler added more weight to the plane, and there was always the leakage danger inherent in any water-circulation system. But this impracticable system was the beginning of last week's new idea...
...Steam. At that temperature, ordinary steam pipes become red hot; consequently, new metal alloys had to be developed to withstand the heat. To regulate the heating of the steam, the Navy had to develop a brand-new kind of boiler in place of the space-consuming boiler dampers used in land power plants...