Word: exhaustiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banks of the Connecticut River. Oldtimers who examined the concrete-lined testing chambers, in which jet engines will roar full blast in a gas-swirled inferno, were reminded of a classic Pratt & Whitney story. A wartime visitor to the plant, watching blue flames flickering from an engine's exhaust, remarked brightly: "Actually, you people simply are trying to contain and control fire, aren't you?" Replied a Pratt & Whitney veteran: "Yes, and that's simply all the devil has to do in hell, too, as I understand...
Clockwise. The average tourist (who, in 1950, had begun looking for bargains again) would disregard them all. If he lived in the country he would head for a big city-despite the heat, the crowds and the stench of exhaust fumes. If he lived in a city he would head straight for mosquitoes, poison ivy and a bull that wanted to gore Junior. He would travel by car, visit a national park if he could, and a relative if he couldn't avoid it, and almost always he would drive clockwise around a circular or elliptical route...
...that he could not afford to nurse his car along for all of those 50 miles. On the ninth lap, he rammed the foot throttle down and skittered into the lead, past Veteran Mauri Rose, three-time winner of the race, who pounded along doggedly in Johnnie's exhaust trail-a nauseous compound of burned benzol, alcohol and 100-octane aircraft gasoline. Said Parsons later: "I saw my chance and I wanted some of that lap money"-$100 for the leader of each 2½-mile circuit...
Last week inside the Mulligan shack, for the benefit of visiting newsmen, Maw proudly started up the gasoline engine of a new washing machine. Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room. Cautioned Paw: "Now mom, don't do that. These city fellows don't like getting dust on them." Then he added: "My wife's naturally mechanical...
...Wright Aeronautical Corp. described this week its "Turbo-Cyclone 18 Compound Engine," designed for the utmost fuel economy. It has a conventional piston engine in front and three small turbines driven by the exhaust gases. The turbines add 20% more power, but use no extra fuel...