Word: exhaustively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dealings with the Navy, Huck was equally brash. When the Navy suggested that he change the location of the PT-69's toilet, he replied that he would then have to run its drain pipe into either the exhaust or the officers' filing cabinet...
...went into Calgary from Keoma, the little Alberta town where Victor Ramberg struggled to make a living as a grain-elevator salesman. Victor Ramberg bought two lengths of hose pipe. Next day, after dissuading his wife from wanting to die with the baby, he attached the hose to the exhaust of his 1935 Hudson, put the other end in the child's crib, started the motor...
...changes inside than out. Among mechanical improvements: 1) for a softer ride, its lateral wheel base is broadened (front: 2¼ inches; rear: if inches); 2) to lessen skid danger, braking pressure is now distributed not evenly but 60% to the front wheels, 40% to the rear; 3) the exhaust system has been "streamlined." The Ford front end has been redesigned around a small, rectangular grille, and gingerbread held to a pleasing minimum...
Planes were first supercharged by devices geared to their crankshafts. This saps the engine's driving power. Whimsical, fox-bearded Dr. Moss had a better idea: to harness energy which would otherwise be wasted-the engine's flaming exhaust gases. Drawing on his youthful attempts to devise a practical gas turbine for General Electric, Moss developed a thin-bladed turbine which the exhaust drove at about 20,000 r.p.m., geared this to a blower which shot compressed air into the carburetors at sea-level pressures...
...once a dark, lonely search for enemies, is now helped by constant radio instructions from ground control rooms where new radio detectors trace in detail the movements of both R.A.F. and enemy planes on sky charts. Other new devices prevent R.A.F. planes from being betrayed in the dark by exhaust flames or red-hot, glowing exhaust pipes...