Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same track as the 5:18, just as crowded and already behind schedule, the steam-driven 4:56 from Cannon Street was headed out for Ramsgate and the channel coast. Overhead, on the viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local was inching forward. At precisely 6:20, in a moment of ghostly horror, the blanket of fog was lit by a blinding blue flash. St. John's grimy brick houses rocked to a crash that sounded, said one resident, "like the explosion of a ton of bombs." Plunging ahead...
Yesterday New York awoke. Steam-heat husbands emerged from suburban incubators and made their careful ways to the street-corner. There were no subways. Court orders and oratory notwithstanding, the trainmen stayed home on Monday...
...warning -and sufficient SAC bombers took the air to make the warning effective. The Russians quit talking about volunteers. SAC's bombers can be moved to forward bases to make political points (and to be read on enemy radar) just as the Navy's fleets can steam ostentatiously to show the flag. As an instrument of keeping the peace in the cold war, bombers still have advantages-unlike launched missiles, they can be recalled, can be ordered to shift targets in flight. And currently, the Air Force's bombers pack a bigger explosive wallop than programed intercontinental...
...final signal, giant control rods will lift slowly out of the uranium reactor core to start a sustained chain reaction. At the moment the reactor "goes critical," a flow of 508° F. water will pass through the core chamber, starting a nuclear process that eventually will produce steam to generate electric power. After three years and $110 million spent by the U.S. and the Duquesne Light Co. on the Ohio Valley plant, the nation's sluggish private atomic energy program will show its first practical results...
...shipment's total value, thus immediately tying up an estimated $40 million worth of importers' funds. As a result, imports dropped an average $25 million monthly, were actually slightly behind currency-earning exports for the month of October. Moreover, inflation at home lost some of its steam. With the squeezing of bank loans, commodity traders were forced to unload their goods, and retail prices stopped climbing...