Word: exhaust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowdown in its military contracting helped to cut AMF's first half-year sales 11%, to $185 million. Burgess, once president of Trans World Airlines, was an Eisenhower era Assistant Secretary of Defense, joined AMF in 1958. Burgess intends to push new consumer products, including an auto exhaust filter which, if certified, would become one of two competing antismog systems mandatory on all cars in California...
Roar: muffler or exhaust system...
...long the inspiration of poets and composers, have been stricken by a mysterious blight, which one newspaper attributed to a death wish on the part of the trees caused by Italy's booming capitalism. The trees, complained the paper, no longer want to live, faced with all the exhaust fumes from motorcars and "the streams of reinforced concrete that Rome, like a volcano, spews forth...
...most effect on urban populations that have been predisposed to the actions of pollen by such stimuli as auto exhaust fumes, chimney smoke and smog...
...hard, Graham, or you'll blow it up." He screwed in his earplugs, snapped his helmet strap and adjusted his goggles. "Hey," he yelled to Mechanic Tony Robinson. "Where's my chewing gum?" Robinson handed him a stick. Moss waved. "Here goes," he said. Then, exhaust crackling fiercely, he roared off to the starting line...