Word: hotbox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon pay for itself. Hitherto, train crews could communicate with one another only by stopping the train, sending a crew member trudging the whole stretch of the freight. Such necessary, time-consuming stops are frequent. On last week's test run four important train messages, one reporting a hotbox, were relayed from cab to caboose. Without radio the trainmen figure it would have taken them three hours to get the message back, meantime delaying other trains behind them...
...fringes of Empress Augusta Bay U.S. marines and soldiers killed more Japs, expanded their positions. But the week's most spectacular killing of Japs in the Solomons theater took place many miles from Bougainville's steaming, hotbox jungle...
Roller bearings, said Timken's intrepid ad, would permit "one-speed" railroading (identical speeds for freight and passenger trains), would accelerate the whole defense program, save building many new cars. Other roller-bearing claims: 1) starting resistance reduced by 88%; 2) elimination of hotbox delay; 3) reduced maintenance costs...