Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Braniff searched the air transport industry for good men, sent his gangling Braniff Airways north to tap the rich traffic at Kansas City, Chicago and Denver. A businessman with a hawk eye for facts & figures, Braniff watched his operating costs, held losses at a minimum...
...field will tap the New York area's 30,000 to 40,000 postwar private planes, may become the north anchor of a bustling Westchester-to-New York City shuttle line...
...Living Buddha. Emily's Shanghai apartment had green walls, ceilings spangled with stars and crescent moons, silver-gilt furniture, 60 satin cushions. Gibbons were her favorite pets. Dressed in diapers, they swung from the bars of a bamboo grille. From the back room came the steady tap-tap-tap of an illegal wireless transmitter, planted there by some amiable Chinese guerrillas. Emily's other friends included fabulously rich Sir Victor Sassoon (he gave Emily a snappy Chevrolet coupé), the gouty Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia ("I have nothing to do all day," he said fretfully, "but chant...
Tesla concentrated on larger projects. The most grandiose: a scheme for the wireless transmission of electric power. He proposed to charge the earth with tremendous voltages and make it "oscillate," thereby making it possible to tap electricity from any part of the globe. At his famed electrical tower in Colorado, Tesla produced a potential of 135,000,000 volts (still the highest ever achieved) and claimed that he lit 200 incandescent bulbs 26 miles away with wireless power...
Susie exploded from the starting gate with her wobbly ears cocked forward, her long stride eating up the ground. After just 50 yds., Devil Diver was three lengths back; at the wire, it was six. Megogo was never in the race. Without a single token tap of the whip, Susie had traveled the route in 1:56 3/5 - the identical time set by Seabiscuit in humbling War Admiral in the same race six years...