Word: compressor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because he was annoyed by the noise of WPA pneumatic drills near his Kansas City house, Dr. Logan Clendening ran amuck, smashed with an ax the valve and feed pipe of the air compressor supplying the drills, was jailed (TIME, Feb. 20). Last week he pleaded guilty to charges of destroying property and disturbing the peace, was fined...
Without pausing to remove hat & overcoat, portly Dr. Clendening strode around to the valve and feed pipe of the air-compressor supplying the pneumatic drills. Sock! Crack! went the ax. The drills fell silent, but not Dr. Clendening. At the marveling WPAsters he roared...
...frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse. All four wheels are powered. In water or on marsh, traction is provided by sections of inflated hose strapped around the tires just as normal motorists strap on winter chains. In case of puncture, the tire is kept inflated by a compressor which feeds air constantly to the tube...
...telephone office at Renton. He was told it was too early to make a call. He then drove to a filling station, called the Weyerhaeuser home in Tacoma, 20 miles away. No one answered. At last, after the filling station man had shut off his noisy air compressor, Farmer Bonifas made the police of Tacoma understand that he had on his hands the most sought-after person in the U. S. What should he do with him? Bring him home at once, barked the frantic police. Meantime, in the automobile outside, George heard newsboys yelling that his uncle had paid...
...Boston one day last week officials of Provident Institution for Savings watched the 30-ton door of their bank vault ponderously close and lock. A motor compressor forced air into the vault through a ventilator until a pressure-gauge climbed to 4 Ib. per square inch over atmospheric pressure. At that level the gauge stood still nearly an hour after the air input had stopped. A valve was then opened and the compressed air wheezed...