Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spend much of their time thinking of ways for the Federal G....ernment to spend more, dedicated John Williams. 56. devotes his time to trying to get the Government to spend less. His latest discoveries in the fine print of federal expenditure records: ¶ The Air Force needed 116 fuel-pump screws in a hurry some time ago. The screws were worth about 5(' apiece, but the cost of extra handling and air-special delivery ran the cost up to $1 apiece. Later, when the Air Force came to pay for 272,-710 identical screws. Government purchasing agents agreed...
...kill speed, use a bank bordering on a turn, as a buffer to keep his rear wheels on the road. He won last year's Italian Grand Prix by "slipstreaming"-tailing a Ferrari so closely that the rival car acted as a windbreak, letting Moss conserve precious fuel and tires...
...FORD STEEL process will cut its open-hearth-furnace production time in half, says company. Ford puts oxygen, fuel and burned lime into furnaces v. usual limestone. Steel industry is skeptical of the process' high costs, but Ford plans to put it into...
...Rockefeller) began to show a humanitarianism and sense of managerial responsibility that were new in the cutthroat, turn-of-the-century world of high finance. Accompanied by W. L. Mackenzie King, a bright young labor-relations specialist (later the longtime Prime Minister of Canada), he visited the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. after a bloody and bitter strike, came away with a strong sympathy for the laboring man and a distaste for company-town paternalism. He translated his feelings into liberal labor contracts and an insistence on enlightened management at all Standard Oil plants...
From the belly tank, empty at the time of explosion, to the trailing edge of the right wing ran a small vent through which fuel could drain in case dangerous pressure built up in the tank. The investigators believe that a lingering bit of St. Elmo's fire, instead of discharging normally from the special tassles on the plane, somehow found its way into the pressure vent and touched off the gas fumes. The fire raced back to the tank, blowing a hole in the right fuselage and exploding a wing tank that in turn blew off the right...