Word: exhaustable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truck Muffler. A muffler designed to cut down truck exhaust noises was brought out by GMC Truck & Coach Division. The new mufflers are larger, use heavier metal and larger exhaust pipes and have a reverse-flow system. They will be standard equipment on new GMC trucks...
...Chryslers, which came out this week, looked about the same as last year's models on the outside but had a big change inside. By improving the carburetor and enlarging the intake and exhaust valves to permit freer "breathing" of its "FirePower" engine, Chrysler boosted horsepower from 180 to 235, making it the most powerful stock-car engine in the U.S. The new engines will go only into the highest-priced New Yorker and Imperial lines...
...average U.S. car-owner has a definite and jaundiced image of a hot-rod: a souped-up old jalopy driven by some wild-eyed youngster, usually seen bulling through traffic, fenders flapping and exhaust stacks rumbling. But last week, on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, a superior sort of hot-rod was in evidence: handsome, beautifully tuned machines built by safety-conscious young men who could talk intelligent shop with any engineer in Detroit...
...first Brandau and Kooser used silver iodide, sprayed through extensions on their planes' exhaust pipes. Eventually, to cut down expenses, they replaced the iodide with goop which seemed to work just as well. One man, flying high (up to 35,000 ft.) over the tops of thunderheads, seeds them with dry goop. Below the clouds, the other plane sprays a solution of superheated goop. Some ten minutes later, rain usually falls. Hail, so they claim, has no chance to form...
...boat can be a yachtsman. Last week an estimated half million or so of them were sluicing along under sail, while another 4,300,000 owners of power boats of one kind or another ("stinkpots" to sailors) were chugging up & down U.S. waterways, happily laying down fumes of exhaust...