Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They pounded his supply lines, even sent planes over the Mediterranean toward Crete and Sicily to attack ships moving in slow convoys with new supplies for Rommel's reserves. Sunk within four days were three Axis tankers, two freighters laden with motor vehicles, one destroyer...
Fighter pilots, more inclined to have trouble with gremlins than other branches of the air services, often are bothered by gremlins who sit on their shoulders and make a noise like a knocking motor when the motor is running smoothly. When a pilot has been flying for a long time through clouds, a gremlin may whisper into the pilot's ear: "You fathead, you're flying upside down!" The pilot then hurriedly turns over and flies upside down while the gremlin laughs and laughs, silently. Another favorite gremlin trick is to climb into gun barrels and deflect bullets...
Wood has one advantage over all other motor fuels; it is available locally in all the gasoline-rationed areas. It does, however, require a stovelike generator to convert the wood into combustible gases for the engine. This means a new diversion of semiprecious light steel or cast iron. The generator can be mounted on the rear bumper, the trunk compartment or the rumble seat, can be charged with coal or charcoal, but more cheaply with a charge of equal parts of sawdust and chopped or "hogged" wood. A carefully controlled draft prevents complete combustion of the wood while generating carbon...
...organized his own underground postal service. When their gangsters attacked his Shanghai printing plant, he steel-plated its doors, went armed. A hand grenade last year hit him in the back but failed to explode. The day before Pearl Harbor his head editorial denounced the Japs for stealing motor cars (including his own) off Shanghai streets...
...method of operation [of the arm]," wrote the doctors, "is somewhat similar to that of a two-horse carriage, where the pull is . . . apportioned and equalized between the two ends of a lever, the whiffletree." Motor power is reduced to about 25% of normal, but this is still enough to enable patients to carry pails of water or pour water from one full pail into an empty one. The articulation is so perfect that the patient can hold and smoke a cigaret with ease...