Word: brake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pedalless Car. Automobile controls that eliminate the brake and gas pedals were demonstrated by Bendix Corp. Two pressure plates flush with the floorboards replace the pedals. Braking is faster because the driver does not have to lift his foot. Bendix claims the development will make pedals "as obsolete as the hand crank...
...book's best piece is about railroading - how to set a freight car's brake and then, perilously, slip blocks of wood under the wheels; the arrogant, slow-motion skill of well-paid oldtimers in clean overalls; the trainman's contempt for the placid, nonrolling civilian world. The author's stream-of-consciousness gibberish is fairly effective as he tells of being summoned at 4:30 a.m. to catch an early run ("I wake up ... in the mouth of the night and there everything knows that I have no mother, and no sister, and no father...
...probable starting backfield for the Crimson will be Bill Taylor at right half, Roy Williams at left half, Gill Bamford at full, and Watts at quarter. In the forward wall, from left end to right, Shepard will most likely start Ron Bone-brake, Rick Rice, Dick Baker, Tom McLaughlin, Walt Kelley, Ed Smith, and Ron Juvonen...
...away trade barriers that brake international trade, and incidentally, in the process, mow down parasitic bureaucrats by the thousands...
...Climax is John W. Galbreath & Co., headed by lively, slight John Galbreath, 63, who makes a specialty of buying company towns, sprucing them up and selling the houses back to the workers. Since 1941, Galbreath has revitalized and sold 17 company towns, including those of U.S. Steel, Westinghouse Air Brake Co. and Erie Mining Co. When the Climax Molybdenum Co. started having doubts about its town (dozens of employees had moved away), Galbreath moved in, bought the town of Climax for $1,500,000 and got ground near Leadville to set up a new community. He is selling the houses...