Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy supply ships, and McMurdo is almost as busy as the Brooklyn Navy Yard. To support a population that reaches 3,500 at summer's height and will include 120 scientists this year, U.S. freighters and C-130 Hercules air transports shuttle in mountains of food and gear, haul back tons of scientific records and specimens to U.S. laboratories...
Asked to name a Great Idea, Annapolis' middies are wont to say "Beat Army." But the academy has lately undergone a bit of brainlifting. Courses have been tripled to catch up with missile-age gear and theory; the 4,100 midshipmen can major in twelve fields; the new academic dean and almost half the faculty are civilians. Middies no longer even march to class in formation...
During the high-flying days of the scientific glamour stocks, few soared farther or faster than Itek Corp., a secretive Massachusetts maker of aerial photo gear. Its shares came out at $2 in 1957, shot up to $255 in 15 months, then split 5 for 1. The company attempted to pyramid itself with acquisitions, as Litton Industries has successfully done (TIME cover, Oct. 4). But it turned into what General Dynamics once was-a gangling collection of independent divisions sadly lacking central control. Itek lost $2,500,000 in 1961, and its stock began to drop, scraped...
...logistical exercise, Big Lift was a triumph. Despite occasionally impenetrable ground fog in Germany and Hurricane Ginny's winds off the Southeastern U.S., the Air Force flew 236 missions, toted 459.6 tons of combat gear, logged 13,000 flying hours and burned up 6,500,000 gallons of fuel-all without mishap...
Buying Mood. All of Detroit is in high gear. In the middle third of October-the first period in which all the new 1964 models were on the market -sales ran at a record 26,492 cars a day, up 6.7% from the same period last year. Production of the '64s passed the million mark last week, earliest date that Detroit has ever reached that total...