Word: engineeer
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Farewell to Drudgery. Though, as a word, automation entered the American language only in 1946 (presumably when Ford Motor Vice President Del Harder snapped impatiently, "Give us some more of the automatic business, some more of that automation"), the idea of having machines do the work of man dates from...
>Pilot Ronald H. Conway, 29, who survived the crash, failed three flight tests early in his career, although he later passed his multi-engine and transport-rating tests without a failure.
But perhaps the strangest evidence of all was that Chief Flight Engineer John Mayfield had blithely repaired a fuel pump motor on the Constellation the day before the crash by cutting down a brush taken from a 1954 Mercury automobile generator. As it turned out, the engine with the ersatz...
*Blow-by is Detroit's name for the unburned fuel vapors that escape from the cylinders of an internal combustion engine during the compression stroke. From the cylinders, the fuel enters the crankcase, where its hydrocarbon-rich fumes mingle with the vapors from hot engine oil, then slip out...
Dipping to dangerously low altitudes, the two-engine Dakota carefully traced the bulges and inlets of the New Guinea coastline. Aboard the plane a weary man and girl spelled each other at the windows with a pair of field glasses. First New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, hollow-eyed...