Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned, the Neptune will burn the same fuels as the V2: alcohol and liquid oxygen. It will also carry hydrogen peroxide, which suggests that, like the V2, it will have a steam-driven pump to rush the fuel into the combustion chamber...
...leave a little over for profit. He is well on toward that goal. In the first quarter this year, the Monon set aside $517,296 for new equipment, showed an operating deficit of $128,475. And by the end of the year, Barriger hopes to retire all his steam locomotives and make the Monon one of the first full diesel roads...
Labeled the "Edison Hotpoint" system, the newly-installed tables are entirely electrically operated and do not require the extensive plumbing that would go with a permanent steam setup. The temporary tables, put out four years ago when the dining halls first began to follow the G.I. practice, used portable, electric heaters with water-filled pans to give a steam-heated product...
...deck and a bellyfull of barreled aviation fuel, snaked through the Sandy Hook minefields one May morning. Rusty or not, she was good for 15 knots in a pinch, and sailed without convoy. Her chief engineer, an oldtime wrench-pusher named Seligman, knew just enough about high-pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup, the second, only half as adept mechanically but twice...
...room house. In later, better days, she frequently brought home 20 pounds of fish for her little family, and baked up vast heaps of pastry that lay around for weeks going stale. In bigness, Fannie found an outlet from an environment that imprisoned her as a radiator imprisons steam. At this steam valve, Billy was nurtured and here he inhaled the megalophilia that has dominated his life...