Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birds. In Manhattan, Joseph Albanese was fined $10 in traffic court for unnecessary auto-horn blowing despite his explanation that his pet crow, Oleander, hopped on the steering wheel and tooted the horn...
Just passed a racer. Yo ho, look at us roll. What did he say, Ralph? He lost a wheel? Those are the breaks...
Here's Commonwealth. Look at the trolley tracks. Ralph, look at them. For crying out loud, look at time! Get the wheel out of the tracks, you idiot...
...dungarees slapped him on the back, knocked his book from his hand, and observed, "Hey, you're in Ec I too, huh?" Pretty well everybody was interested in the B & M's engine, the 3713, which is the line's last P-4 Pacific-type. It has a wheel arrangement of 4-6-2, which, as an enthusiast knows, is the way you distinguish one steam engine from another. Others, like the two fellows who brought their tape recorders along, took special delight in 3713's whistle, which is marked for posterity on a commercial disk scheduled for release...
...engine, it will run on the lowest grades of fuel, will even run on peanut oil. It needs no crankshaft or connecting rods, and it has so few rotating parts that friction and wear are far less than in standard piston engines. Furthermore, unlike the gas turbine, its turbine wheel runs cool, hence does not require costly heat-resistant alloys. General Motors has no immediate plans to produce the free-piston engine. But G.M.'s engineers hope that its debut in dealers' salesrooms is not many years away...