Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With Stirling Moss coming up fast, Australia's Jack Brabham gambled that his worn tires would hold, passed up a pit stop and flashed home by just 22.2 sec. in his Cooper Climax to win the 225-mile British Grand Prix at Aintree. The victory (average speed: 89.88 m.p.h.) gave Brabham eight points to widen his lead for the world driving championship...
...pasturelike outfield. There are no near fences to invite Chinese home runs; leftfield is 350 ft. away, centerfield 401 ft., rightfield 320 ft. Faced with this expanse-and a considerable lack of talent-Washington's late owner, Clark ("The Old Fox") Griffith, relied on bunts, slap-singles and speed on the base paths. Legend has it that Griffith watered the infield to slow bunts to an unplayable dawdle, even slanted first base downhill to benefit his sprinters. One vestige of Griffith's parsimonious reign: the four sluggers earn some $66,000 (Killebrew gets around $8,000) all told...
Bloody Strikes. This shift in imports has come with what seems like lightning speed, especially to a nation that dominated world steel production for so long. Only 34 years after the age of steel was born with the invention of the Bessemer process in England in 1856, the infant U.S. steel industry began to outstrip the other major producing countries. When Banker J. P. Morgan founded U.S. Steel Corp. in 1901 by merging several companies, the U.S. produced 37% of the world's steel-and Big Steel produced the lion's share of the U.S. total from birth...
...blown. The hydrogen cools the reactor, keeps it from melting or vaporizing. At the same time, the hydro gen is heated to a temperature (about 2,000°-3,000° C.) just below that of the reactor, expands enormously, and blows out of the nozzle in a high-speed jet. Hydrogen is essential because its molecules are the smallest known, and the smaller the molecules in a gas jet the bigger its propulsive push...
...well as Corvair, it launched a massive ad campaign proclaiming "the advantages of front-engine cars over rear-engine cars.'' Among them: "Cornering is better . . . more luggage area . . . greater driving stability ... To relax your grip on the steering wheel [of a rear-engine car] at highway speed would be dangerous...