Word: motorizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer do beach boys take people skindiving from their dugouts for $1.60 a day-they buzz around in motor boats. Twelve deep-sea boats stand ready-at $30 to $50 a day-to bring in that trophy for the game room. The bungalow that rented for $30 a month brings as much as $250, and a one-bedroom house on the fashionable hillside called "Gringo Gulch" goes for at least $10,000-still a bargain by Acapulco standards. There is neon, a supermarket, a nightclub. The new Posada
...devised a compact, clockwork-driven pump that weighs only three-fourths of a pound and can be hung on the patient's chest like a hearing aid. Inside Dr. Watkins' contraption, a plastic reservoir contains about an ounce of anti-cancer drug, usually Methotrexate. The clock motor and pump are so delicate that they are capable of spreading this supply over a week, delivering it via a plastic tube pushed through a small incision into an artery or vein. Patients with cancers of the head, neck and liver have already been helped by home treatment with the Lahey...
...Mosher ruefully decided that prospects might be rosier Southern California's oil fields. With $4,000 borrowed from his mother and a Government instruction booklet to guide him, Mosher in 1922 set up a small plant in Long Beach's Signal Hill oil field to wring a motor fuel ingredient out of the natural gas pumped out by the big oil companies...
...Each receiver is simply an elaborate radio with a radio telescope for an antenna and lacks any sort of speaker for the sound to come out. Like an ordinary radio, these receivers can be tuned in on different frequencies; this is done by a small electric motor which mechanically tunes or sweeps the receiver through its entire range three times each second. In place of a speaker which would make the solar outbursts audible, each receiver has a cathode ray tube. The spot moves up and down the fluorescent cathode ray screen in a straight line, synchronized so that...
...London's motor show opened last week, the crowds clustered around a car that the Times of London called "the undisputed star of the show." It was not so radical looking-except for the name it bore. The Rover 2000 is a daring gamble by one of Britain's oldest and most conservative automakers...