Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning for traditional Southern breakfasts-ham & eggs, grits, hot biscuits-and another day's relaxation. While the Governor golfed, his wife usually went for walks; son John, 8, learned to ride a bicycle on the alabaster-white beach, harassed by his brother, Tom, 12, on a motor scooter...
...Neill, throwing off journalistic reserve, describes Tesla as "a superman-unquestionably one of the world's greatest geniuses." O'Neill credits him not only with inventing the polyphase alternating current generator and Tesla induction motor, which scientists generally have hailed as the basis of "our electrical power era" (TIME, July 20, 1931), but also with discovering the basic principles of the radio, radar, electronic tube, X ray, fluorescent light, electron microscope, rocket bomb, etc. All these and the discovery of cosmic rays besides, says O'Neill, were inspired by basic Tesla findings. Less ardent admirers...
...Bugs and Generators. Tesla had the fictional earmarks of genius. He was humbly born (in a Croatian village now part of Yugoslavia) of a preacher father and illiterate mother who loved to invent household gadgets. Nikola invented a popgun and a water wheel at five; a 16-bug-power motor (operated by June bugs glued to the arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed...
...chief news: in four months, the new and still creaking machinery to dispose of surplus war property had got rid of only $85,007,000 worth. This was a fair bite out of the $465,207,000 in surplus property now on hand, including $19,830,000 in motor vehicles (see cut), but hardly a nibble at the mountain of surpluses ahead...
...enemy is capable of altering his tactics quickly. The enemy understands machinery and is adroit at handling it. Speed characterizes his construction of airfields, motor roads and communication networks...