Word: spray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amplifier assembly will serve Roosevelt Raceway, a pretzel-shaped automobile track on the site of Roosevelt Airport No. 1. From the glass-enclosed studio on the grandstand top announcements will spray over an area half a mile square, can be stepped up, if necessary, to carry a mile. Thus will be eliminated the jumbling ordinarily caused by announcements issuing simultaneously from loudspeakers at different points on a field. Total power consumption is 20,000 watts, enough to lift a ton 7 feet every second...
...white-feathered cocked hat of the Admiral of the Fleet into a corner of the cabin in Flea Boat No. 1, His Majesty had the tiny craft's three 500 h.p. motors opened wide, disappeared toward Spithead in a choppy sea at 44 knots with cascades of spray bursting over his eager head. Twisting and turning at terrific speed among the breakers, Flea Boat No. 1 overhauled the destroyer H. M. S. Amazon which was doing her best to dodge, fired at deadly close range a dummy torpedo and saw it crash against the Amazon's side...
...hope of recovery. I sensed the situation of snowy waters, consequent cramps, the rugged rocks which I at that moment was bumping, the bottomless whirlpool, the 'hellespontiac' current of the waters and the boulders against which my head would surely be dashed. . . . Just then the spray lifted my glasses off my nose, thank goodness, for then at least my eyes would have a chance to hold the pennies to pay Charon. . . . [Then I learned] that St. Peter had rejected me, for I was on the surface again and being rushed with the current...
Food Machinery started humbly in 1884 when Maine-born Californian John Bean invented the first hand spray pump, designed to battle the San Jose scale.* Spray pumps grew bigger, with higher pressures, became power driven, resulted in the manufacture of turbine pumps used in irrigating farms. Now turbine pumps are used in mines and tunnels...
...Spray pumps also developed into pumps for washing food. From food-washers came automobile washers, and from automobile washers a line of motorcar equipment including brake-testers and wheel-aligners. Thus many a Food Machinery product sprang from the spray pump, which Food Machinery still sells...