Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was one hitch: neither Lindsay nor Petersen knew much about hot rods or publishing. By haunting Southern California race tracks, they learned the lingo, found that "herding a goat" meant driving an old racing car, that a "jug" was a carburetor, that a "featherfoot" had a light throttle touch. Then a neighborhood engraver showed them how to lay out pages; a printer taught them to proofread. With $859 scraped up from trusting advertisers and friends, Hot Rod magazine appeared in December...
...busesas in otherspropane gas, liquefied under pressure, is carried in thick-skinned steel tanks. The gas moves through seamless copper tubing, in liquid form under its own pressure (eliminating the need for a fuel pump), and is converted into a gas as it enters the carburetor. Chief advantages: the gas sells for one-half the price of gasoline, burns completely, leaving no carbon, is odorless, and runs the motor more smoothly and quietly, requiring fewer changes of oil and less maintenance. Insurance companies consider propane engines as safe as diesel or gasoline...
...patient's pains first. If a new generation of doctors adopts its humane attitude, even in part, many a patient of the future will be spared the numb feeling that his doctor is showing him less warmth and sympathetic understanding than a conscientious mechanic would give to the carburetor...
Wing & a Prayer. In Pŏ;rto Alegre, Brazil, aeronautics inspectors grounded Pilot Sebastiao Afonso Corbeta when they learned that 1) he had been landing his plane at night on a pitch-dark 100-yard strip, 2) his carburetor was full of sand, 3) his tires were patched with cut-up inner tubes, 4) he had no pilot's license...
...doggedly goes on piling up mileage. His princess does not get angry: she "looked through scarlet lace." A soldier does not feel regret: "hands were wringing in his brain." Snowy's leg is not suddenly weak: it goes to "laughing gristle." Other Llewellynisms that would flood any ordinary carburetor: "A quick thrust of pity alchemised her feeling to a silt of motherly impatience"; "she rolled over, drinking coffee...