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...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
...plump, gray-haired man who runs Dartmouth's new experiment, a laboratory course in current events, puffed on his corn-cob pipe. Beyond the glass-enclosed office was a room full of Indian seniors busily comparing the day's Daily Worker with the Manchester Guardian...
...explosion occurred in a little house with a corrugated aluminum roof in Caracas' eastern suburbs. Two revolutionaries were assembling a bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera...
...great number of wells with low production has some oilmen worried. On the usual basis of one well to every 40 acres, Spraberry drillers could put down 25,000 wells, and might need 4,500,000 tons of scarce steel for pipe-more than is normally used by all the oilfields of Texas in the course of a year. Furthermore, the investment required for such a program would be huge and risky. In Fort Worth last week, a group of independent operators met to discuss a proposal to limit the number of Spraberry wells to one for every 160 acres...
...company said that workmen laying a new sidewalk had gone home, leaving flares to mark the area. A nearby manhole had evidently become filled with gas from a leaking pipe. The flares ignited the gas and blew the manhole cover up into the air. In falling back it struck a pressure-regulating mechanism, forcing the regulator arm into the "open" position. This, said the gas company, introduced excessive gas pressure into customers' homes, where the gas was ignited by various means, such as pilot lights on stoves...