Word: carburetor
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...Beltsville substance is so new to chemists that it has not yet been analyzed or even named. But it is a major discovery in basic knowledge, may lead to bigger crops grown faster, and to control over harvesting times. "It's as if we had been hitting a carburetor with a hammer for years in an attempt to adjust it," says Dr. Hendricks. "Discovering this pigment is like learning that a screw on the bottom of the carburetor is what regulates...
...Refrigerator. An auto refrigerator that holds eight 12-oz. bottles is being sold by Pol-Air, Inc., Morgan City, La. The device is cooled by a copper coil that is connected to the car's carburetor and gas line. The carburetor draws gas from the gas line through the coil, where it changes from a liquid to a vapor and in the process absorbs heat, then is fed back to the carburetor. Price...
...years after his success with his first naphtha-gas boat, he and Hank tried a 2-h.p. Sintz gasoline engine. "It never ran well," says Chris's son Jay, 74, "until Charles Sintz showed up from Grand Rapids two years later with a gadget he called a carburetor...
...balance higher selling prices. The restyled Chevrolet led the way with a new six-cylinder engine that "gives up to 10% more mileage," also offered eight other engines ranging up to 315 h.p. Plymouth offered four engines from 132 h.p. to 305 h.p., had a new gas-saving carburetor and new rear-axle-gear ratio, which it said "contribute to 10% greater economy of operation." Ford came out with four engines ranging from 145 h.p. to 300 h.p., said its lowest-powered, six-cylinder model will get better than 20 miles...
...Leonard S. ("Luke") Hobbs, 61, one of the world's top aviation engineers, will retire next April as vice chairman of United Aircraft Corp. Wyoming-born Luke Hobbs, an engineering graduate of Texas A. & M., designed the carburetor for Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. As chief engineer for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, which grew into United's engine division in 1935, he developed the R-2800 Double Wasp, workhorse engine of World War II, and the R-4360 Wasp Major, most powerful aircraft piston engine ever made. Pratt & Whitney was a late starter with postwar jets...