Word: exhaustion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses, the Yard, and the Business School will have little cause to worry over the heating problem, since that entire area is heated by exhaust steam from the Cambridge Electric Light Company. The steam is carried by several miles of underground pipe extending from the Business School, through the Yard, to the laboratories beyond Memorial Hall. Because the Electric Company burns coal, no shortage is predicted for the user future...
When the first modern Allison was being manufactured for use in military planes, the minds of its makers and the Air Corps officers in charge of its development were on the turbosupercharger. This is in effect a rotary air pump, separate from the engine but driven by its exhaust gases, which furnishes sea-level pressures to the carburetion system far beyond the altitude range of the integral supercharger. An exclusively American development, it gave great altitude performance . . . in bombers and in the larger fighters. But in the smaller fighters which the Allison was to power, its incorporation in the design...
...Hollywood Frances Rose (Dinah) Shore packed enough activity into last fortnight to exhaust two or three less dynamic individuals. She started work on her first picture (Eddie Cantor's Thank Your Lucky Stars), broadcast her own show (Dinah Shore in Person), sang in Eddie Cantor's Time to Smile broadcast, and a few times at Army camps, appeared at the opening of Hollywood's "Stage Door" Canteen. For her it was a comparatively torpid seven days. The week before, in one day she put on seven soldier shows...
...company suggested a mechanical idea which, it claimed, would save a third of the gas consumed by any healthy car. It sounded simple: just shut off half the cylinders (alternate ones in the firing order) by permanently closing intake and exhaust valves, closing the spark plug gaps, adjusting the carburetor to fit the decreased flow of fuel, etc. Five standard six-and eight-cylinder cars thus adjusted and road-tested for as much as 5,000 miles showed no mechanical damage or abnormal oil consumption. The company admitted that much gear shifting was necessary at low speeds and on hills...
...came out of it at 4,000 feet he found two Zeroes on his tail. He dove, ending up with the altimeter reading 1,000 feet and doing 500 an hour, hedgehopping and gradually pulling away from the three Japs who had followed him all the way. His exhaust was shooting smoke...