Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Wallace, veteran diver, who feels light-headed without his 140 pounds of gear, told about another victim he pulled up from Davy Jones' hideout...
...Prime Minister, on this showing, the Perfect Administrator can be counted on to unbalance Britain's budget and get the Empire magnificently out of gear in the name of Humanity and Dietetics. Feeling that a "national emergency" exists in the fact that Herbert Morrison today is probably the people's choice, members of His Majesty's Government were believed last week to have up their sleeves a scheme to block 1936's scheduled general election and keep the Perfect Administrator out of No. 10 Downing St. until...
Year ago U. S. newspicture editors were astonished to receive from Germany what purported to be the photograph of a man flying under his own power by blowing into a box which supposedly actuated rotors strapped to his chest. He wore skis for landing gear, was shown just after the take-off with his friends trotting behind. The picture-as most editors learned too late-was a hoax concocted by the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung for its annual April Fool issue (TIME, April...
...measured kilometer, with a 375 h.p. motor. And on Christmas day he was successful, and the bouillabaisse flowed yellow at the feasts given in his honor. A few days later he tried again, this time for the record for 500 kilometers in closed circuit, but trouble, first with landing gear, later with oil circulation, forced him to give up the attempt, and now he and his plane have returned to Paris. But he will return again soon for another try and he may succeed...
...which spur into its West Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Castings weighing 165 tons have been poured in its foundries and machined in its shops. One of its prides is a gigantic press built for a Navy armor works that will exert a pressure of 14,000 tons. It has gear nobbing and planing machines for finishing gear wheels up to 17-ft. in diameter...