Word: jitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surrey Jitney. A new four-passenger convertible with three wheels was added to its U.S. line by Italy's Lambretta, the motor-scooter maker. Designed as a golf cart, estate jitney or city family's runabout, the "Surrey"' carries two in a front cab, two in a wicker rear seat with fold-back canvas roof. It has a 6-h.p. single-cylinder engine, goes 45 m.p.h., gets 75 miles per gallon. Price...
...race to build the world's smallest helicopter, the lead was claimed last week by Aeronautical Engineer Eugene Gluhareff, who put on display in Manhattan Beach, Calif, a jet-powered air jitney that straps on the back of the pilot like a parachute. Weight of the contraption: 68 lbs., and Gluhareff thinks he can eventually lower...
...world brought Author Edson McCann (pseudonym for "a government scientist") a $6,500 contest prize as 1955's best science-fiction story. But, with its minimum of electronic gadgetry and with no space excursions at all, Preferred Risk stays close to the ground and takes a jitney ride along the broad highway charted by George Orwell six years ago in 1984. Author McCann, throwing politics away as excess baggage, just zips along, fast, wry, and sometimes ingenious...
...Jitney Beginning. Orville Caesar, a mechanic turned executive, still likes to tinker with machinery in his home workshop in Harrington, Ill. He invented the Tropic-Aire hot-water heater to replace the dangerous and smelly exhaust-pipe system for heating buses, saw it become the standard for passenger cars. The son of a Swedish blacksmith, Caesar went to work in an auto-repair shop in his teens, later started a small bus service. In 1925 he joined forces with the late Eric Wickman, who had been building up a bus system in Minnesota since 1914, when he started with...
...dugout home on a Texas tenant farm, Robert Lee (Bob) Thornton chopped brush, plowed with mules, slept in piles of cotton hulls, saved his money, went to Dallas, got a job as a bookkeeper with a firm that folded, got into the textbook business and went broke, started a "jitney loan" business which grew into the Mercantile National Bank. He grew rich and he grew old, but he refused to relax. ("You can't do a damned thing in a rocking chair-lots of action but no progress!") He lived...