Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the rocket is fired, the first gadget to start is a compact turbine developing 580 horsepower and driven by steam from a chemical reaction involving sodium or calcium permanganate and hydrogen peroxide. This runs pumps which force liquid oxygen and alcohol into the bulb-shaped combustion chamber. Reacting fiercely, they shoot a blast of gases through a venturi ring at about 6,000 ft. a second...
Trained Sleeper. In Buffalo, Douglas Mercer boarded a train, snoozed away the trip to Rochester. His berth: atop the locomotive boiler, beside a sizzling steam valve...
About to be devoured by coal-hungry Government steam-shovels were the last vestiges of lawn and garden surrounding Wentworth Woodhouse, the huge, 200-year-old, Yorkshire family seat of the Earls Fitzwilliam...
...cramps. I get rheumatism. I froze my ear. I shiver night & day. I [have to] stay near the stove to steam...
More than seven years before, their Government had turned over its China Merchants Steam Navigation Co.'s property to six-foot, aoo-lb. Bill Hunt, thus put it out of Japanese reach. And now, please, they wanted it back; they offered a handsome price. Bill Hunt's sunburned fists hit the desk, gave the ministers a bad moment. Then he shouted: "I loaned you the protection of my citizenship; I didn't sell it. I want $10* for the properties -with your autographs on the bill...