Word: firebox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Round & Round. This week all these items were tossed in the firebox of Drew Pearson's clangorous Washington Merry-Go-Round. Such fuel, some chestnut-sized, some no bigger than pea coal, and every now & then a nugget as big as a man's hand, has kept the carrousel spinning for 16 years. Next week, the column and its author will share a milestone: on Dec. 13, Pearson's 51st birthday, the Merry-Go-Round will start its 17th year. Under a newly signed contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world...
...essentials of the air engine are extremely simple: a "hot space" heated by an external firebox, a "cold space" cooled by water or air, and two pistons. When one piston shifts cold air into the hot space, the air expands and pushes the second piston away in a power stroke. Then the first piston shunts the air back to the cold space, where it contracts and is ready to start another cycle. A regenerator made of crimped steel wire between the hot & cold spaces keeps heat from being wasted by the moving...
...being bumped around in rattletrap coaches, Bob Young appeared to be a streamlined Galahad on wheels. To fellow railroad men, whom he has unceasingly denounced in magazine articles, full-page ads and speeches for the stagecoach way they run their business, he seemed more like a devil in the firebox...
...Democratic flotsam & jetsam washing about in the Republican flood - a lot of it eminently salvageable. The Solid South's brassbound, high-wheeled old vote-getting machine was hardly splashed, would obviously run as well as ever as soon as somebody chucked a few more corn cobs into the firebox. The Democrats still had the presidency, and the political beaches were littered with postmasters and bales of undamaged patronage...
Lesson. In Manhattan, a victim of robbers ran to a firebox, turned in an alarm, got 30 days...