Word: exhausts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact was that only the steelworkers still seemed really willing to entrust to Harry Truman all the power he thought necessary to forestall a strike in steel. One reason, clearly, was his failure to exhaust the laws of the land before stepping into the shadowy area between government of laws and government of men. More than that, the public attitude seemed to be a vote of no-confidence in the Administration's ability _to deal with an emergency largely of its own making...
...snow off his trousers. "O.K., I guess," he murmured and again took a position behind a rear fender, this time attached to a battered pre-war Ford. Throwing his weight behind the car as the driver gunned the motor, Vag was immediately enveloped in a cloud of oily black exhaust. But he clung valiantly to his post and the car edged slowly into the middle of the street. Long after the others had zoomed off to Wellesley, Vag was still standing in the empty parking space, coughing carbon monoxide and shaking another load of snow off his pants...
Wood explained that Hershey's order merely meant that local boards should exhaust any surpluses of eligible 21 year olds before they induct younger men. Men with 2AS classifications, he assured the CRIMSON, would remain unaltered until the period for which the deferment was given had expired...
...turn out a new unsinkable, all-steel 26-ft. pleasure cruiser. Built with two large steel air tanks under its cockpit deck, it stays afloat and can run on its own power even when full of water. Its engine is sealed in a watertight compartment with a snorkel-type exhaust. Price: $7,000, about $1,000 more than sinkable boats of similar design...
Another gripe was the refrigerators. All refrigerators in the project are gas, and sit directly below wooden cabinets. Several occupants claim that the exhaust has been so hot they were forced to put asbestos pads on the cabinet bottoms...