Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hydraulic catapults on U.S. aircraft carriers have figured in a long series of postwar accidents, e.g., the explosion that took 103 lives on the U.S.S. Bennington (TIME, June 7). Last week the Navy announced that it is abandoning the hydraulic catapult. A steam-powered model of British design, already tested successfully aboard the U.S.S. Hancock, will be installed on all American carriers. The steam catapult, utilizing a hooked piston riding in a slotted cylinder, is safer than the old hydraulic model because it uses no highly volatile, explosive liquids...
Reporter Russell was not impressed. "The Government appears to be helplessly drifting with the current of events," he wrote, "having neither bow nor stern, neither keel nor deck, neither rudder, compass, sails nor steam." In the seceding Southern states, where he was greeted as a friend and potential ally, Russell maintained strict impartially. On Morris Island, S.C., he was urged to drink to "something awful" for Lincoln and the North, but he sharply declined...
...young Chicago newspaperman, Ben Hecht once found himself standing in a train shed awaiting the arrival of a VIP when he observed a workman lying underneath a locomotive. "His legs protruded from the thighs down. I noted that the locomotive had steam up and that its bell was ringing." Next minute "the workman's long legs were lying on the platform . . . The rest of him . . . remained between the tracks." Just then the VIP's train pulled in, so Reporter Hecht left "the bloody scene" and hurried off to his interview. "I had felt no shock at what...
...desk in his Manhattan office. A prolific chronicler of tycoons' careers-e.g., Andrew Carnegie, James B. Duke, John D. Rockefeller-B.C. strove to "humanize" Big Business, larded his Forbes columns with hearty aphorisms. Examples: "Rest? Yes. Rust? No! . . . The self-starter never allows his steam to run down . . . Everything may not be for the best, but let's make the best of everything...
...Morrison borrows as much as $200 million a year from banks and insurance companies spread across the U.S.. is so highly regarded that the Bank of America once wanted to handle all MK's business.) It took years of saving before M-K got its first big steam shovel...