Word: motoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inch, designed to filter out the sun's glaring visible light, which otherwise would have overwhelmed the Lyman-alpha rays given off by the clouds. To keep the camera stabilized in the nose of the yawing rocket, University of Colorado physicists had devised a highly sophisticated motor-operated mount, equipped with photoelectric cells that locked on the sun and kept the camera aimed directly...
...been tapped as "coordinator" of all bloc chemical production, responsible for boosting the area's chemical output fivefold by 1965. An array of interlocking agreements with Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the other satellites assigns East Germany responsibility for large deliveries of diesel and electric motors, power-station equipment and motor vehicles in exchange for raw materials...
...even clerks and secretaries can afford the camera safari, which provides them with a peaceful look at wildlife in the unfettered flesh and fascinating movie footage to amaze the folks back home. Nairobi's Overland Motor Co. offers a 15-day tour of game areas by car for a comparatively modest $700, including round-trip air fare from Europe. Overland, which expected about 50 tourists at most during the first three months of 1959, now expects the total to top 800 before the season is over. The animals in East Africa's national parks, secure in the protection...
Paper Tent. Paper camping equipment, which campers can use for a season or two and then discard, was put on the market by Corporate Research, Inc. of Ann Arbor. Ford Motor Co. dealers will promote the disposable camping equipment with their sales of station wagons, figure that many a family can be tempted to undertake camping for a low-enough investment. Price for four sleeping bags and a tent to sleep two adults, two children...
Smog-Reducing Gasoline. Tidewater Oil Co. put on sale in Los Angeles a new-formula gasoline which, it says, cuts the amount of smog-forming hydrocarbons released into the air from motor exhausts on new cars, gas pumps, etc. Price: same as other higher-grade gasolines...