Word: modell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only recently, Vag has discovered a new out let for his train-love. To him the Massachusetts Model Railroad Society's hangout on Atlantic Avenue is a wonderful place--even better than South Station, his erstwhile favorite. A second-rate poet whose name Vag cannot recall likened the world to a room in the house of the universe. There in three rooms on Atlantic Avenue, the Society has got the world--or at least enough of it to accommodate a fine, microscopically complete railroad. There the Vag has found the mountain grades, the yards, the freight trains, and the Limiteds...
...very happy now. He would like to live there among the model trains. Of course, someday, when he graduates, Vag would like to be an engineer. Not the clever kind they turn out by the thousands at Tech, but one of the real heman kind of engineers on locomotives of trains throughout the world, who know daily the indescribable thrill of easing the throttle open, gradually nursing the Johnson bar into the center notch, and letting the mighty monster rock over the high iron. Until that lucky day, Vag is going to try to get work as an extra yardman...
...finger on a whitish deposit covering the inside of a glass vessel not much bigger than a thimble. He expected this substance to crumble at his touch. Instead, it came out intact, like a smooth, tough vellum paper. It stood on his desk, forming a model of the vessel which it had lined...
Owens-Illinois and Corning are model parents for the new company. Owens, with total assets of $87,562,251, is the world's largest bottlemaker; their chemist, Games Slayter, started perfecting fibre glass seven years ago. Corning (assets and profits secret) has specialized in technical refinements; it was to Corning that Thomas Edison went in 1878 asking for a little glass bubble in which to put his incandescent filament...
...problem. Gliding, for instance, is pleasant to think about and it depends on wind currents of all sorts. He has always wanted to glide, he has heard and read so much about the sport, and yet he has never actually seen anything bigger than a two-foot model. He knows somebody, however, who knows somebody who has done the most wonderful soaring at Elmira, staying up through his own skill and knowledge of air currents...