Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voting dragged on, a blistering sun turned the kampong into a steam bath, but nobody left. Even after the polls closed, the wilted voters waited to watch the counting by kerosene lamp. This was typical of polling places everywhere-intense, inarticulate interest, no disorders of any sort...
...When mankind got electricity and steam," says Steiger, "factories sprang up, and residential sections were thrown around them without planning. That's what we must avoid in the atomic age. The architect should be Number...
Cumbersome and sluggish in its early years, Diesel's engine did not seriously challenge steam until General Motors in Z933 produced the first modern, lightweight diesel. It took World War II to ignite the real development of diesel power. G.M. turned out diesel trucks, tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million...
...Second Hundred Million. G.M., which did not start breaking even with diesels until 1940, today is the world's largest maker, has turned out 100 million diesel horsepower, more than the capacity of all the steam-generating plants built by industry during the same period. Burning low-cost oil, diesel engines today propel 49% of all U.S. merchant ships afloat, handle most of the. nation's roughest construction jobs, from road building to rock-crushing. Predicts G.M.'s Harlow H. Curtice: "Within ten years we shall have duplicated the efforts of the preceding 22 ... It took...
...enough to power a town of about 15,000 population), with parts that could be boxed and flown anywhere in the world for reassembly. It is a "pressurized water'' reactor plant, i.e., ordinary water under high pressure is used both to control the reactor and to produce steam to turn the turbine that generates the electricity, and similar to the 60,000-kw. plant that Westinghouse is building for Duquesne Light Co. at Shippingport, Pa. The price: $4,000,000, if Westinghouse gets as many as ten orders...