Word: dynamos
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...high-powered engines, tested on schedule, power production becomes possible. More important was the difficulty of coupling a high-speed engine to a low-speed generator, of obtaining uniform, dependable voltage regardless of the ups & downs in speed and number of the engines under test. Now a variable-speed dynamo unit replaces the propeller, produces power instead of wind...
...months ago in Washington, a squat dynamo of a man, full of strange contradictions and flashing talents, urged increased U.S. production of everything from bacon to bombers. "Bottlenecks, to me," explained Lord Beaverbrook, "used to symbolize pleasure-now they're a pain in the neck." Last week, Max Aitken, once of New Castle, N.B., now Lord Beaverbrook of London, stuck his neck out for new pains. He became Minister of War Production...
...biggest industrial center-where Russia gave birth to its first tractor, first dynamo, first blooming mill; which annually produced nearly $2,000,000,000 worth of finished goods all the way from ships to binoculars, locomotives to electric light filaments...
Bubbling Bob, better than ever, is the vehicle's only Hope, and keeps the show rolling with a laugh every minute on the minute. Known as the human bat, cannonball, and dynamo, he fights his way through cannibals, a gorilla, and a Crosby, but is not sugar-daddy enough to win marsh-mallow-momma Lamour...
Then suddenly the fans rose to their feet in a roaring mass. As if some unseen transformer had hooked on a new supply of power, Armstrong was the dynamo of days gone by. His little fists smashed Zivic with savage fury. It was a superhuman rally, one its witnesses will never forget. But it was too late. After 52 seconds of the 12th round, Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight. Three times (after the eighth, ninth and tenth rounds) he had peered anxiously at Armstrong's wounds. His eleventh-round warning-"Just one more round, Henry"-had spurred...