Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shivering Sand banks. Second Mate Franz Leipelt, officer on watch, and a British pilot were on the bridge. At the helm, Swedish Able Seaman Herbert Tonning guided his ship at a cautious 10 knots through a calm, moonless night. From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers' saloon, was thrown headlong on the table. He ran to the bridge. The ship's clock stood...
...gallon of ordinary high test gasoline. But he did it only after making exacting engine and body adjustments. Motor compression ratio was stepped up from 6.5:1 to 10:1, tires were inflated to 110 pounds per square inch, the fan belt was removed to save power, front-wheel bearings were lubricated with oil instead of grease to reduce friction...
...N.X.I." (Nash-Experimental-International) is a low-slung, two-seater convertible big enough for portly President Mason and a passenger. Built along the lines of a heavier car, the N.X.I, is 12 ft. 1 in. long (the smallest Ford is 16 ft. 4 in.), has an 84-in. wheel base, and is designed to be powered by a low (18 to 36) horsepower foreign engine such as Italy's Fiat. Depending on the horsepower, the N.X.I, would go 35 to 50 miles on a gallon, have a top speed of 60 to 70 m.p.h., and cost...
Talk of Wonders. The revolution was symbolized in midsummer when New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer stepped up to a pipe at Staten Island, turned a wheel and brought the first natural gas hissing into New York through the Big & Little Inch pipes from Texas, more than 1,000 miles away. Other pipelines snaked all over the U.S., connecting cities with the huge and still largely unused gas reserves of Kansas, Texas and Louisiana. For consumers, the effects were pleasant. When the new fuel supply reached Milwaukee, the local utility, which had made gas out of coal...
...away the script, he stopped long enough to get into his clothes and help Rita put a mink coat over her pajamas. Then he hustled her out of the four-room suite, through one of the hotel's side exits and into a black Buick. Aly took the wheel himself and roared off to the clinic two miles away...