Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bigger Bug. Germany's Bavarian Motor Works has put on the market a five-passenger mate to its two-passenger Isetta 300. In addition to the door opening from the car's front, the new Isetta 600 has a rear curbside door and back seat, is 21 in. longer (115 in. overall) than the 300 model. Its air-cooled engine has two cylinders to the 300's one, doubling horsepower to 26, though gasoline consumption of up to 58 m.p.g. is about the same. U.S. price...
...soon-1907-to be a part of the new state of Oklahoma), began to search for oil on a barren, sandy track that had cost him $500. He hit oil with his first well. A few years later he was a millionaire-and Paul was bitten by the oil bug himself...
Rocketeer Oberth's work had inspired many another young German rocket bug, most of them flirting dangerously with destruction as they pursued their untried hobby. Von Braun joined a small group firing rockets from an abandoned ammunition dump in suburban Berlin. When he left for a term at Zurich's Institute of Technology, he continued his experiments, built a contraption that spun mice in simulation of rocket takeoffs. Afterward, his roommate, an American medical student, dissected the mice, announced to Von Braun that the high acceleration caused cerebral hemorrhages. Their landlady had another kind of announcement: any more...
...After trying unsuccessfully for months to break the world's water speed record in the U.S., Donald Campbell took his big, jet-powered bug back to Britain, dunked it in Lancashire's Lake Coniston and screamed to a new mark: 239.07 m.p.h., more than 13 m.p.h. better than...
...bug, which has played havoc with the Crimson all fall, has directed one final swipe at the squad in striking down its captain, Dave Norris. Norris spent most of last week in bed and almost certainly will not run today...