Word: wakeless
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...hand-held cameras on two specially adapted motorcycles moving along the marathon route. All three vehicles will be powered by electricity, since exhaust fumes might bother the athletes. To follow the rowers and canoeists without swamping them in the wake of an ordinary boat, the network constructed two nearly wakeless craft: both consist of 10-ft.-high platforms mounted atop a pair of racing shells...
When Price stepped into that job in 1946, Westinghouse-known before the war primarily as a maker of light bulbs, fans and heavy equipment-was virtually a new company, producing everything from jet-airplane engines to wakeless torpedoes. In Price's six years, it has undergone an even greater transformation, is now working on everything from the propulsion units for atomic submarines (at a new multimillion-dollar atomic-power plant in Pittsburgh) to tiny electronic pilots for guided missiles...