Word: kart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuels, or both at the same time. New York's Oneida Heater Co., one of the nation's oldest furnace makers, introduced a wood-fired line of furnaces five years ago and now does some 80% of its business with them. In Milwaukee, a gocart manufacturer, Johnson Kart Co., five years ago developed a wood-burner adapter to fit onto existing oil-fired hot-air furnaces, and since then has tripled its work force and sold 50,000 of the units (price...
...airplane engines to chain-saw motors. While some are equipped with Plexiglas windshields, others are more austere. The Breezy, for instance, exposes its pilot to 60-m.p.h. winds. The Easy Riser is nothing more than a pair of biplane wings connected by a seat and powered by a Go-Kart motor. Cost: $1,200. To get this 80-lb. flying machine off the ground, its developer, Larry Mauro of San Jose, Calif, runs as fast as he can for 25 feet. Says he: "In this plane you can find pockets of lift and spiral around. When...
Works of Dowland, Britten, Villa-Lobos, Mozart, and Serben: Kart Dan Sorensen, Tenor, David Sussman, Gulter; Adams...
While other songwriters are heading for country creeks and watermelon vines, Springsteen celebrates urban lowlife. His songs are ambitious mini-operas populated by punk saints and Go-Kart Mozarts in scenarios laced with schmalz and violence. His territory: the streets of Harlem, tenements, the funky world of the boardwalk's pinball way with its dusty arcades and machines. Bursting with words, images rush along in cinematic streams of consciousness...
...Muzi-Kart's fiber-glass body has been lifted up to display a gleaming, hand-built $4,500 engine that jets the car down the drag strip at 150 m.p.h., a single bucket seat contoured to the exact dimensions of the driver, a tiny two-handled steering mechanism, and an automatic fire-extinguisher system...