Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regretfully" accepted the resignation of Assistant Commerce Secretary Lothair Teetor. praising his "diligence and talent." Teetor announced last May that he would soon return to his family's Indiana piston-ring business, the Perfect Circle Corp., scene of a violent C.I.O. strike since last July...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will honor Walter H. Piston, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, by playing for the first time a new Piston symphony in the Orchestra's 75th anniversary concerts on Nov. 25 and 26. Piston was commissioned by the BSO to write his Symphony No. 6 especially for the anniversary concerts...
...catalogue for less general courses, suitable for the non-concentrator, in individual composers or periods. There are none. Furthermore, during the last two years the range of such courses offered by the department has narrowed considerably. Such regularly given and quite popular courses as "The Symphony from Haydn to Piston" and "The String Quartets of Beethoven" are no longer available and apparently no step has been taken to give others in their place...
Fuel-injection systems, which may take years to reach all cars, will probably be the last major refinement of the present piston engine. The great change will be the turbine engine. But the first engine will probably not be a true gas turbine. It may well be a "free-piston engine," a combination of the piston engine and turbine. The idea of the engine is old, but only recently have automakers been able to eliminate many of the bugs. In the present engine, the pistons turn the crankshaft as the explosions in the cylinders drive them down, thus transfer power...
...many auto engineers, the free-piston engine could be the logical transition to the gas turbine. Most of the mechanical bugs in a small gas turbine for cars have already been eliminated. Chrysler, for example, has been testing a gas-turbine car on Detroit streets for months. Nevertheless, engineers estimate that the mass-produced gas-turbine auto is still at least ten years away. One reason is that heat-resisting alloys needed for turbine engines are still far too short for mass production. But the biggest reason is the economics of the auto in dustry. The industry has to progress...