Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Self-Starter. In 1910 a woman driving across Detroit's Belle Isle bridge had engine trouble. Byron Carter, maker of an auto called the Cartercar, happened by, stopped to help, and was cranking furiously away when the motor kicked. The backlashing crank broke his jaw; he later died of complications from the injury. Kettering, an engineering graduate from Ohio State University ('04), by then set up in his own Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (DELCO), heard of the accident, decided that he could do something to prevent others like...
...trying, testing and failing again. It was part of his system: "You cannot start to do a new thing and hit it right the first time." But within eight months, by disregarding all the rules of the day about electric motors and storage batteries, he had developed the self-starter. Cadillac bought it, and within a year car sales were doubled...
Died. Charles Kettering, 82, retired vice president of General Motors, inventor of the self-starter; following a stroke; in Dayton, Ohio (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
George Harrington led varsity scorers with 22 points, all from the floor, while captain Bob Repetto, Griff McClellan, and Bob Bowditch had 12 points each. The fifth starter, Mike Donohue, played a fine game in the backcourt, netting eight points...
This was, of course, the position at which the Elis had been most seriously crippled by injuries. Starter Tom Singleton was somewhat lamed by an ankle sprain; and his first and second substitutes did not even dress for the game. This left the burden of the quarterbacking to an ex-jayvee named Andy Kugler, who was simply not up to the task...