Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme of astonishing virtuosity: an outboard motorboat is drifting in a rock-girt bay, with no other sounds than the slap of waves on the hull and the seething wind. Then come a series of reluctant, coughing gasps as the pilot tries to start the engine. At last the motor responds to his desperate tug, and the little boat dashes across the bay, the puttering sound of the engine reflected faithfully by the towering cliffs ahead. The boat goes faster & faster, and at last races altogether out of control. We see the pilot wringing his hands and hear his frightened...
Costing roughly $400, the pinball machine weighs 125 pounds, has over 700 feet of wire, a transformer, electric relays, motor, and hundreds of light bulbs. Experts, whose pinmanship is par excellence, direct the course of the magnetized marbles with well-calculated nudges, but usually when handled too roughly the machine shortcircuits and clicks on the "tilt" sign...
...Germany's bleeding western flank. The Remagen bridge led into rugged country without any close objective of strategic importance. To realize Remagen's fullest value, ten or even 20 more crossings of the Rhine were needed, crossings by every means possible: assault boats, amphibious armor and carriers, motor-driven rafts, pontoon bridges, pneumatic-float bridges, even perhaps by multiple-span Bailey bridges longer than any yet thrown together. In the north, the Rhine is wide...
...Ford Motor Co. plants in Antwerp and Passy (France) were badly damaged by Allied bombs. Ford plants in Yokohama and Shanghai are likely to be more rubble before Fordmen see them again...
Human Design. The U.S. pioneers in jet-plane research, which began before Pearl Harbor and has been based on the design by British Inventor Frank Whittle, have been General Electric (the motor) and Bell Aircraft (the frame). But today almost every major U.S. planemaker is up to his ears in jet plans...