Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hotly embarrassed, President Martin and his lieutenants whirled from plant to plant, persuaded their men to come out. go back to work, but a fresh sit-down this week closed Chevrolet's steering gear plant at Saginaw. With confidence in their authority badly shaken, U. A. W. leaders resorted to straight capitalistic tactics, blamed their troubles on communists, promised a union purge...
...spectacular cities in the U. S. sits upon immense hills. But though these pup mountains give San Francisco many a gorgeous view, they long retarded her development. Horses cannot pull wagons up the steep streets, only the most vigorous people care to walk them, automobiles must go into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable car, started the first one on nearly vertical Clay Street. Overnight, property values doubled on Nob Hill and all real...
...That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom in a spray of sparks while he propellers knotted like pretzels. With sirens screaming, ambulances dashed he wreck just as Flyer Amelia stepped out white-faced. Said she: "Something must have gone wrong...
...eliminates all vibration, in-.creases speed 25%, improves take-off and climb. Its pitch is automatically controlled by centrifugal force. Another odd prop was offered by Maynard-DiCesare, with the two blades offset at the hub to give greater bite. Edo showed the world's first detachable amphibious gear for land planes. Most resplendent exhibit of all was Colonel Roscoe Turner, strutting about in a fawn-colored uniform...
...inches long when market-sized. They are bright red in color, differing in this respect from the southern shrimps which are green, and generally live on muddy bottom in depths of 60 to 100 fathoms. That is not an easy place for small boats to reach with their limited gear. Fortunately the shrimps come into shallower water near the shore during the winter, where they can more conveniently be taken. Thus they will probably supply is winter fishery, and a very welcome one to Maine small-boat fishermen, who need something to bolster up their badly depleted lobster industry