Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scalded to death with the steam...
...power after flashing through outlying Bowie. But the train was doing 70 m.p.h. as it came roaring toward C Tower, which stands just three minutes from the station at slow yard speed. The locomotive's whistle was screaming, its engines were running in reverse, and clouds of steam, flame and sparks were flying from its screeching wheels...
...plunged through a newsstand, and emerged into the concourse like a bull elephant bursting out of a screen of jungle. It headed incongruously across the floor toward the crowded waiting room. Then the concrete flooring gave way and it crashed through into a baggage room below amid clouds of steam and dust and a heart-stopping tumult of sound. The first coach hung at an angle over the gaping hole. The second coach also entered the concourse. Other front coaches were derailed, but passengers in the rear coaches did not realize there had been an accident. They thought that...
Canned Pump. In the atomic-submarine Nautilus (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951), the same heavy water that promotes the nuclear reaction in its atomic furnace will heat the boilers of its steam turbines. This stuff will be dangerous. Even the best modern pumps spring leaks, and the smallest leak of radioactive water would make the submarine's cramped quarters uninhabitable. Westinghouse now has an answer to this atomic-age hazard: a "canned" pump, with all its electrical parts locked tight in stainless steel. The whole pump is buried in the water pipe, needing no seals or packing that can leak...
Although the first-round matches have not been exceptionally exciting, they are expected to pick up steam when the tournament reaches it climax in March...