Word: sockets
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...night loaded with rockets, bombs and machine gun bullets. I've been working 15 to 18 hours a day maintaining these airplanes, and when I get a chance to read TIME I feel a little more like a general running this show than a mechanic with a socket wrench in my hand...
...electric radiant heating system, including a portable heater that looks like a 2 ft. by 3 ft. panel of plywood or marble. Price of the portable panel: $19.95. The panel, which is actually of asbestos imbedded with wires, radiates a 135-160° heat when plugged into a light socket. To heat a house, panels can be built into the walls and covered with specially treated paint or wallpaper...
...below the tail of the tanker. The position in which it hangs can be controlled by small movable vanes near the boom's tip. A man in the tail-gunner's turret of the tanker plane watches the receiving plane approach, and "flies" the boom into a socket on top of the nose. Then the fuel is forced through the tube under pressure...
...Products Co. on a royalty deal (a minimum of $20,000 a year plus $2 for each machine sold in excess of 10,000). The machine, which has an adaptation of a powerful hydraulic pump previously used for cleaning airplane parts, needs no installation; just plug it into a socket and hook it onto the kitchen faucet...