Word: burners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy basically is not the fascist type but the type of the left-wing Populist or Jacobin agitator, the barn burner, the Wild Man, by an infallible instinct and not 'by accident' subverting precisely those institutions that are the most conservative, venerable and patrician-from the Constitution, the most decorated or paternal generals (Marshall, Eisenhower, Taylor, Zwicker) to the leaders of our most deeply established religions and precisely the most ancient of our universities...
...special sense, this is what the honored, respectably liberal Goethe did when he committed his rebelliousness to paper. But man in the mass, who does not have such comfortable literary outlets, can "become transformed into storm trooper, Blackshirt, NKVD inquisitor, guard on the long march from Corregidor, or burner of the fiery cross...
...Burner Control. The Florence Stove Co., Chicago, Ill., has incorporated in its new models the first thermostat control for a top-of-the-stove burner. A thermostat automatically controls the gas flame, gives a constant temperature (200° to 400°) to cooking dishes. Price: from...
...Russians Ahead? Around the Coanda effect, Avro's Frost created a startling design shaped like a saucer, 40 ft. in diameter, with a squat jet engine in the middle and a bubble cockpit perched above. From the engine's 35 burner tubes blasts would radiate to 180 exhaust ports all around the saucer's edge. To apply the Coanda effect the pilot needs some kind of movable control over one lip of each exhaust. To take off he would set these controls to deflect the blasts downward. The downblasts carry along with them more air from above...
MCDONNELL Aircraft Corp. grounded its Demon jet fighters for which the Navy has placed large orders, while it investigates three test-flight accidents. One plane exploded in midair, another landed with a dead burner, and a third had a fire in the tail section, all in nine days. Pilots escaped serious injury...