Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British builders also lost $1,000,000 in orders for ship navigational gear because their bids were three times and five times higher than competing U.S. bids. Reason: labor costs...
...been gremlin plagued. On Valkyrie 1's maiden flight, a runaway engine had to be shut down and four tires blew out. Two months ago, Valkyrie 2 was saved when its copilot used a paper clip to short-circuit a crazed computer and free its locked-in landing gear (TIME...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth is certainly getting gear. Last year, at the behest of the swinging Labor government, she put the Beatles on her birthday list as Members of the Order of the British Empire, an honor the shaggies won for all the cash that their noise had contributed to the empire's balance of payments. This time, for rather the same reason, Her Majesty named fab Fashion Designer Mary Quant, 32, doyenne of the Chelsea group's knee-baring, hippy styles, as an officer of the O.B.E. Her fad is siphoning so much loot into Albion...
Within a week of the groundbreaking for the Widener Library the creation of the Harvard University Press for the purpose of publishing works of "high scholarly standards" was announced. But just as Harvard's attempts to distinguish itself further as a university were getting into high gear, discussions on other matters which would become as important were just beginning...
...next 25 years. In the north, bauxite reserves amount to 3.5 billion tons, about half of global reserves, or enough to fill all the Western world's needs for a hundred years. Canada's Alcan Aluminium Ltd., France's Pechiney and others are helping Australia gear up to export an estimated $6.7 million of bauxite and refined aluminum by 1970, largely to Japan...