Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, literally out of thin air, the turbosupercharger emerged last week as a menace to Hitler's power. It emerged, too, from 22 years of dusty neglect as a belated triumph for its inventor, Dr. Sanford Alexander Moss, 68, who developed the turbo long ago to help beat the Kaiser. As flyers in World War I reached for higher & higher altitudes, they found their engines losing power dangerously. Reason: atmospheric oxygen is as vital an aviation fuel as gasoline. At 20,000 feet, air is only half as dense as at sea level, at 35,000 feet one-fourth...
Planes were first supercharged by devices geared to their crankshafts. This saps the engine's driving power. Whimsical, fox-bearded Dr. Moss had a better idea: to harness energy which would otherwise be wasted-the engine's flaming exhaust gases. Drawing on his youthful attempts to devise a practical gas turbine for General Electric, Moss developed a thin-bladed turbine which the exhaust drove at about 20,000 r.p.m., geared this to a blower which shot compressed air into the carburetors at sea-level pressures...
...When Moss turned up at Dayton's McCook Field with his turbo in 1918, he met the traditional experience of all inventors: the "glassy eye," as he recalls, of skeptical industrialists and Army brass hats. He took them to the top of Pike's Peak, where a 350-h.p. Liberty motor gave only 230 h.p. in the thin air at 14,000 feet. When Moss cut in his supercharger, the motor roared away...
This answer to an advance man's prayer happened last week at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa. Reason for it was the appearance (for ten performances) of Authors George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, aided and sabotaged by tongue-tied Harpo Marx, in their Broadway hit play, The Man Who Came to Dinner...
...WheelerGuy S. Lowis Margie Wood, RadcliffeJames Logan, Jr. Margaret Clayberger, Colby Junior CollegeFrank G. Lynn, Jr. Peg Wells, Vesper GeorgeGeorge W. Mallory Patricia Cavanagh, WellesleyAustin B. Mason, Jr. Lansdale Daley, WinsorDavid R. Matlack Phyllis Palson, RadcliffeSingerly C. McCartney Alice Lynch, WheatonJ. Robert Moskin Hepzibah McWeebles, Dunkling-on-CharlesWilliam J. Moss Natalie Gale, BeaverWilliam L. Nutting Polly Palmer, WheatonWilliam C. Palson Priscilla Tapley, SmithWillard Platt Patricia Elliot, WellesleyBroaddus Robinson Patricia Drew, BeaverO. Glenn Saxon, Jr. Bobsie Deming, The Day SchoolErwin H. Schell Alice Minot, CambridgeRichard D. Solo Helen Salters, BrooklineEdward B. Stevens Andy Johnson, Miss Wheeler'sPeter Gram Swing Patricia...