Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is only one recorded incident of a steam car boiler exploding. This occurred at a testing pit of the Stanley Steam Car Co. when a boiler was tested to destruction under conditions impossible in an automobile. I heard of one other incident, during the '20s however, I don't think it should count, as the boiler was being used as a still at the time...
...private competition with calamity. Like most antique cars, the "Stanley Gentlemen's Speedy Roadster" showed some stubborn and u predictable quirks. Its temperamental burners, which require a mixture of kerosene and gasoline, could not stomach the English brands. Its pilot light went out, steam pressure dropped, and the boiler filled with the fumes of unburned fuel. Tusek (an ex-paratrooper) tried to light things up again, but touched off an explosion that flashed flames all over the car and started the boiler's seams...
...often plague the rule-book golfer. At twelve, Sam took up caddying at the Homestead, studied the pros, and played the employees' course-nine tortuous holes on a mountainside called the "goat -course." The Sneads were poor (father Snead was a maintenance man in the Homestead's boiler room). In addition to caddying, Sam also worked as a soda jerk...
With her ashtray complex working overtime, Suzy makes a bachelor girl's flat out of an abandoned 16-ft. boiler and starts slinging ham & eggs at the local hash house. Just when the matchmaking plans appear to be spiked. Cannery Row focuses its cloudy mind long enough to bring the two lovers together by an action as silly as it is surprising...
...glory of Union-and sometimes its despair-is its cherished tradition of complete theological freedom. Union theologians have periodically been denounced as heretics by each other as well as by outsiders; like workers in a boiler factory, they become alarmed at any sudden spell of quiet...