Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours last week, summer heat and the instinct for direct action, which is inherent in the female mind, raised the very old Ned with telephone service in Gulfport (pop. 22,659), Miss. When the temperature in the telephone company's big switchboard room got to 92°, the 69 young ladies on duty all got up and indignantly walked out. B. D. Northcutt, president of the local telephone union, who is negotiating with the company for air conditioning, hurried over and asked them to go back to work. They told him, in effect, to go jump in the river...
Like many an American before him whose clothes had wilted in the Haitian heat, Jimmy Plinton found, when he tried to get his pants cleaned, that Haiti had no dry-cleaning plant. He also found that this fact has all sorts of consequences. Haitian businessmen suffered from it, because they could not find much of a market for woolens, gabardines or satins. Most Haitians stuck to washable linens, since only a few of the rich could afford to send clothes to be dry-cleaned in the States, or to throw them away after they got dirty. Haiti's legion...
...race settled down into a contest of durability on a track foul with exhaust fumes and simmering with bakeoven heat. For all their high-flown names (Springfield Welding Special, Cop-Sil-Loy Brake Special, Grancor-Elgin Piston Pin Special), all but one of the low-slung racers were powered by four-cylinder Meyer-Drake engines...
After 48 laps, Vukovich made a pit stop, took on fuel and four new wheels, all in 49 seconds. He lost the lead momentarily, but five laps later he had it back. The heat and the grind began to take their toll. Cars broke down, and seven swerved into spectacular accidents in which no one was seriously hurt. Worn-out drivers turned their cars over to relief men. After 70 laps Carl Scarborough, 38, dropped out. Later that day, he died of heat exhaustion...
TITANIUM, the wonder metal that is even lighter and stronger than magnesium, is in for a huge expansion program. Planemakers are so eager for the heat-resistant metal for air frames and jet engines that Defense Secretary Wilson is expected to approve a $500 million program to boost output to 22,000 tons a year (1952 total: 992 tons). Under the plan Du Pont, and partners National Lead and Allegheny Ludlum, already in production, would raise production sharply; others, like Chicago's Crane Co., would get into the field with the help of Government loans and purchase agreements...