Word: carburetor
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...Tucker Torpedo, a completely new car designed by a completely new company (the Tucker Corp.), looks like a backward bullet. It has a 150-h.p., six-cylinder aircraft-type engine in the rear, a fuel-injection system eliminating the carburetor, a new type of drive shaft and transmission. It is expected to weigh some 800 lbs. less than the average car, cost from...
Roads, Restrictions & Rates. Alaskans had scores of grievances. They wanted roads-one overall-clad woman dramatized the request by tramping in to see the Secretary, announcing she had left her tractor mired to the carburetor two miles outside of town. Gold operators complained that the Army hired their help away. Hundreds asked for release of Government lands, an end to restrictions which discourage homesteading. Alaska was in terrible need of hospitals, particularly tuberculosis hospitals. And there was always the subject of high freight rates...
Pouf! In Charlotte, N.C., a husky fireman, responding to a three-alarm blaze, found smoke pouring from a parked truck in midtown, raised the hood, saw flames around the carburetor, bent over, blew out the blaze...
...escapes and holes up in the Baxter cellar. They aid Atlas the Mental Giant in a staggering plan to divide up the postwar world ("xVrP2+a" ∆x2y >13 It comes out wrong"). They foil black-market desperados through O'Malley's pretended attempt to repair the carburetor of the getaway...
...light and medium tanks. Made in several designs, the commonest form of filter looks like a glorified five-gallon oilcan painted Army green. Inside is a complicated mechanism whereby incoming air is subjected to centrifugal action and to a violent cleansing oil spray before being passed along to the carburetor...