Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hose trucks, hook-and-ladders, pumping wagons, and 200 evacuated Quincy students fill DeWolfe St. as thirty-foot flames roar through a broken sixth-floor window...
Firemen ascend the ladder toward the sixth-floor window on the courtyard side, carrying a three-inch hose. They break through the unbroken corner of the window with the nozzle and bring the fire under control...
...that 70% of its customers who want 28-ft. yachts and more also want and are willing to pay for a whole galaxy of luxury accessories. Among them: refrigerator-freezer, $1,250; four-burner stove with oven and broiler, $365; deluxe hot-water system with mixer faucets and spray hose, $1,210; electrically pumped shower, $450; automatic pilot...
Ships on Air. From such far-out ideas come down-to-earth breakthroughs. It was only ten years ago that Christopher Cockerell, an English engineer, reversed the suction on a household vacuum cleaner, stuck the hose through the bottom of an open-ended tin can, watched the can float-and got the idea for the hovercraft. Today's hovercraft are amphibious vessels that glide across land or sea a few inches above the surface, supported on jets of air around the perimeter of the hull. Two weeks ago, Swedish Lloyd and the Swedish American lines signed a deal...
...during the vo-dee-o-do era of rumble seats and rolled-down hose that Rudy Vallee first took megaphone in hand, intoned "I'm just a vagabond lover," and invented the crooner. In the 35 years since, the crooner has endured through a succession of other musical crazes to become an American institution-if one that almost went under in the first great waves of rock 'n' roll. In the last few years the crooner has come back stronger-and sleeker-than ever...