Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vaselli built the Way of Empire and much more. Like Crassus of old (who introduced the first fire-fighting service to Caesar's Rome but always bought up threatened nearby properties dirt-cheap before dousing the flames), he picked up many a real-estate bargain from cash-short owners in the course of cutting through the Duce's grandiose streets and squares. By 1937 Vaselli was known as the "garbage baron" and "asphalt king." And when typhus broke out again in Rome, Mussolini blamed him. After a vast check, Vaselli took Mussolini early one morning to a Roman...
...life in Paris. In a familiar living-death type of ending (recalling Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra and Henry James's Washington Square), the big house is shut again, the mirrors are covered once more, and Erika sits brooding before the fire: "Now it is my turn to wait...
...show can be put on in a place where the public is not afraid to go." Winning the support of some 75 galleries, Nordness soon had to take over five stories of a warehouse to store the 7,000 paintings and sculptures that came rolling in, sweated through a fire that burned down the adjacent building, even surmounted a last-minute crisis when the beige cloth backdrops for the show were sent to Chicago by mistake...
...engines much more powerful than they are now, and "the reliability of a single liquid-fuel engine is so low that even the most optimistic may quail at the idea of grouping more than a few turbopump systems into a clustered stage." Rocket engines using a solid propellant fire perfectly almost every time; they can be used in large clusters with expectation that all of them will do their duty...
...first four-cylinder V-type outboards - 50-h.p. engines priced at $750 to $850-which, they bragged, were almost free of vibration. Scott-Atwater showed the first three-cylinder outboard, an in-line 60-h.p. model priced at $980. The first practical outboard diesel, which cuts the danger of fire, was exhibited by American M.A.R.C., a medium-weight (75-80 Ibs.), 7½-h.p. engine priced at about...