Word: gyros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parachute. When the lifeboat hits the water, a radio operator in the aircraft starts the boat's engine by remote control, then steers it toward the rafts or swimmers. Once on board, the survivors can talk with the plane over a two-way radio. The operator sets their gyro compass on a course that will take them to the nearest land. The boat has fuel for 800 miles; more fuel and water can be dropped. Early in 1952, says the Air Force, all its A-3 lifeboats will be equipped as radio-controlled taxis...
...shift to automatic transmissions, automen have added a shoal of new words to the language. Most of them, as might be expected, end in "matic" (e.g., Hydra-Matic, Gyro-Matic, Ultramatic). Last week the Ford Motor Co. announced a new automatic transmission of its own, developed with Borg-Warner Corp. for the 1951 Mercurys. Its name: "Merc-O-Matic." In a few months the company will bring out a new transmission, optional on all 1951 Fords. The name, to nobody's great surprise: "Ford-O-Matic...