Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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German developers are scouting emptier Eldorados as far afield as Lebanon and Iran. However, some experts think the boom is already losing steam. One portent is that some of the most fashionable Germans are rediscovering West Germany. Areas such as the Black Forest and Bavaria, they report, are not only beautiful and easy to reach, but have one unique advantage over almost any other vacation spots in Europe: few Germans go there...
Died. Peter Schlumbohm, 66, jovial German-born U.S. chemist who believed that "a coffeepot should not be a steam engine," in the early 1940s invented the simple Chemex coffeemaker that gently filtered the coffee and made him rich; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...house in 1935, still takes a lively interest in politics. But his real love, and that of his sons, is the land. Last year alone the three Crockett men spent more than $80,000 for new equipment-but sometimes, just out of sentiment, Bill runs an old-fashioned steam-driven thresher...
...recent years, said Rickover, less than 10% of conventional components, such as steam generators for naval nuclear-propulsion units, have been delivered on time; 30% were six months to a year late. After delivery, over 50% of them had to be further reworked to meet contract specifications. And in the case of steel castings, said Rickover, "we often have to order two to three times as many as we need because we have so much trouble obtaining satisfactory ones...
...consortium of eleven powerful electric companies that sense a power revolution not many years away. If a full-scale generator works out as well as Dr. Kantrowitz expects, it will turn the chemical energy of coal or oil into electrical energy with 56% efficiency. The most efficient modern steam-driven generators do not get better than...