Word: counterweights
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With the evident approval of the men who govern Britain, Elder Statesman Smuts sees the Empire of the future more closely united on policy, open to association with other European nations (TIME, Dec. 13). Such a Commonwealth might become the British counterweight to Russia and the U.S. in a future world...
...Berlin the personal newsorgan of the Führer screamed that German schoolboys in Yugoslavia were being foully picked upon. All over the Balkans last week little nations quaked at what the Axis might do and the Slavic Balkans were drawn to hope that Russia might provide a counterweight. But assurance of Russian aid to Yugoslavia which would have no easy time getting there was still more hope than holler...
...organizing board said that plans would be laid down to unify all Eastern colleges in a common front "to keep American interests at home" and to organize an effective publicity campaign as a counterweight to interventionist propaganda...
...series (Speedway and De Luxe) this year with deep-skirted front fenders, a beltline chrome strip from front to back. All by itself in the ultra-low field, Willys has dropped its prices 12% to $495 to $620. Improvements: New-type soft springs with rubber-lined clips, counterweight crankshaft, automatic carburetor...
...elevator engineering is based on the simple hoist. Suspended by cables (still "ropes" to elevator men) and balanced by a counterweight, the car is drawn upward on its rails by a motor-driven drum ("sheave") at the top of the shaft. The development of this mechanism from the old geared, hand-operated elevator to the modern skyscraper type was chiefly a matter of making the necessary high speeds comfortable and safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator...