Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Illinois Central's Locomotor. It looks like an interurban or subway electric car, but is a combination steam locomotive and passenger car. Within a sheet steel inclosure is a steam generator only 6 ft. high by 4 ft. diameter. Oil distillate, left after crude oil is refined, keeps superheated steam under 550 to 600 Ibs. pressure. The steam automatically operates two driving engines hung from the car body, and an auxiliary engine which operates lights, fans, pumps. Built experimentally by International Harvester Co.* and the Ryan Car Co., tested by the Illinois Central since last August, this locomotor easily...
...plumber got into his home for one day. It took the God-fearing citizen a year to find his religion again. And Mr. Sanders runs true to his tribe; he's oh, so chesty. He wrote you: "The Catholic Hierarchy does not speak for me." All right, Mr. Steam and Gas Fitter, I don't fancy Catholic bishops will lose their rings or their tempers about that. But who-who on earth ever gave you the right to speak for the "rank and file of Roman Catholics if let alone by the Catholic Hierarchy?" The Catholic rank...
...description applied by many lines to any ship which can steam from a U. S. to a British port in one minute under six days...
Kansas City Power & Light Co. (holds franchise to steam heat Kansas City till 1935) net, $3,690,168. Previous year...
This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Pierce Hall, Room 110, Professor C. H. Berry will deliver the sixth and last lecture of a series of popular lectures on engineering. The subject of his talk will be "Modern Steam Machinery...