Word: carburetor
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...resolved to make some contribution to safety and efficiency of aircraft. Last week Dr. Hutchison, onetime (1913-17) chief engineer and personal representative of Thomas Alva Edison, brought forth his offering: "Moto-Vita," a device which measures the unburned gases in engine exhaust, enables a pilot to adjust his carburetor accurately in flight for complete combustion of fuel and, consequently, elimination of waste. Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks tried the Moto-Vita on a flight to Memphis, informally reported a fuel saving between 30% and 40%. While Dr. Hutchison's motive was to help airmen, his invention may have...
...applied a compressed-air booster* to "kick over" the sluggish pistons. Instantly the compressed-air tank and the engine burst, the explosion throwing the crew and their one passenger 40 ft. to the ground, wrecking the fore part of the gondola, scattering a shrapnel of splinters. Flames from the carburetor shot upward but burned out without igniting the hydrogen-filled...
...each of the twelve jurors in the murder trial, starting with each man's birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer, the manager of a carburetor factory, a millionaire, a German shopkeeper, a certified public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive for his preposterous crimes, what these twelve men voted to do with him. Author Thayer has saved...
Clémenceau: "I used to think he was a carburetor,? and then I read a few pages of him?no, he just didn't carburet. He has a kind of conscientious emptiness such as a Provengal would take on who is trying to attain an air of profundity. The Americans who read him between two halves of a football match must have a good laugh...
Cadillac. Bidding strongly for logo's luxury trade was a new model by Cadillac. Autophiles who once gloated over Packard's mighty "Twin Six" gathered around the enclosure which contained the new Cadillac engine, regally mounted. Composed of two blocks of eight cylinders (each with carburetor) set at an angle of 45° instead of the usual 90° for a V-type, the engine will develop from 165 to 185 h. p., send the V16 gliding along with electric smoothness. Ready in April, the V16 will sell from...