Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentle. More powerful rockets made the new-model sleds start like frightened jackrabbits and pushed them along the rails at the speed of fighter planes. Stapp rode them all. He suffered the acceleration forces as they speeded up and the even greater forces of deceleration as the water brake (long trough of water engaging a scoop on the sled) brought them to a wrenching stop. Faster and faster speeded the sleds; fiercer and fiercer grew the wind buffeting against him. Once his wrist pulled loose and fractured against a railing. He set it himself and that night had oysters...
...four-holer cars. When Harley Earl first showed Curtice the panoramic windshield on the experimental Sabre and Buick XP-3OO, Curtice's reaction was typical: "Boy, that's good. Let's put it into production." When G.M. engineers experimented with such devices as the foot parking brake and Dynaflow transmission, Curtice, the perfect customer, tried them and quickly ordered them on production models. One Curtice disappointment has been Chevrolet's glass-fiber Corvette, which he ordered Chevy to make to compete with foreign sports cars. He hoped to sell 1,000 a month, but production...
...steam. Polite Britons changed the rules, allowed their opponents to enter a substitute: a bright, brassy 1914 Stutz. Still, the British won almost every event. Even in the Concours d'Elegance, judges looked past the sharp and shiny American paint jobs that dazzled the crowds, lifted hoods, examined brake linings, and awarded the beauty prize to the British. Final score: Britain...
...such faintheartedness had to be banished, that bases and airfields beyond the Yalu should be bombed, and that Chiang Kai-shek's offer of Formosa divisions ought to be accepted. He said as much. Clark believed that the result would not be World War III but a powerful brake on Communist aggression everywhere...
...bounce, just scraped, then the plane settled into a smooth landing. The air speed registered 100 knots, and the pilot could feel his wheels sliding on the slippery, wet pavement. "Drag chute out. Drag chute out," he called. Before he finished the order, the copilot had the brake-parachute billowing behind the plane to slow the speed...