Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price of protection soon goes up. Cobb's partner, who wants the union in and the hoods out, winds up at the bottom of an elevator shaft. After that, the picture turns into a shemozzle over the manufacturer's soul as well as his love life (Valerie French) and his dollar, with the racketeer on the side of the angels and a union organizer (Robert Loggia) reading the gospel according to Dave Dubinsky-with one surprising variation. There is plenty of union activity, in a manner of speaking, but it generally seems to be of the kind that...
...town-strong task force deployed across her lawn. Firemen had lowered a hose to Benny and were pumping oxygen into the airless hole. In the eerie shadows cast by searchlights, trucks disgorged tools, timber, volunteers. Rescue workers were feverishly digging a pit ten feet from Benny's shaft and parallel to it. A power shovel clanked in to speed the digging, but had to give up only four feet down when the pit caved in. A dozen men stepped back into the hole with hand shovels, shoring up the crumbling walls every foot...
...advantages of the straight gas turbine with none of the main disadvantages. The glamorous turbojet that flies through the air with such wonderful ease is as helpless on a highway as a bat or a hummingbird. Even the workaday turboprop (a gas turbine that delivers power through a shaft, not through a jet of gas) is hard to adapt to ground uses. Chief failings: 1) poor fuel economy, especially at low speed. 2) cost of heat-resistant parts, 3) sluggish response when power is called...
...automobiles, trucks, etc. the free piston engine has special advantages. The gasifier, its heaviest part, can be placed under the hood while the turbine can be in the rear at the end of a gas pipe. This eliminates the drive shaft that clutters low-slung cars, and it distributes the engine's weight in a desirable way. Unlike straight gas turbines, free piston engines have quick response. The man whose self-confidence is supported by making jackrabbit starts when the traffic light turns green will not suffer deflation if his dream-car of the future has free pistons...
...with his homework while his wife tended a baby in a cradle. Another child crawled on the floor, and a grandmother was setting the table. But the lieutenant noticed that the fire had only just been lit. Kicking it apart, he found that the hearthstone moved. Underneath was a shaft leading down to a room in which eight men were hiding. Among them: much-wanted Argyrious Karademas, Greek arms smuggler, trained saboteur and prison breaker...