Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blamed the crash of its famed Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork) in the Syrian Desert six weeks ago on lightning (TIME, Dec. 31). According to KLM's experts who examined the wreckage, Uiver hit the ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting. And the bodies of six victims found outside the machine, likewise untouched by flames, showed typical...
Since cocky little Finland has not the slightest fear of Japan but hates and fears Japan's No. 1 enemy Russia, Finnish Army officers prepared to give Captain Nishimura every scrap of secret information on how to keep troops and war gear efficiently in action at temperatures down...
...that on both occasions he found it "a little stiff, but all right in every way." Second Assistant Engineer Parry testified that the Mohawk's steering motor had frozen during cold weather a year ago, forced the helmsman to bring her into port with the emergency hand steering gear. But he was sure it had not frozen last week...
Gadgets are really the most important part of a boat show. Last week they outnumbered boats by 39,900, took up one entire floor of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace. Sample gadgets: streamlined searchlights, helmets for novice deep-sea divers, log cabins, bilge pumps, nautical china, gear grease, chronometers, barometers, fire extinguishers, glue. Best sellers this year as last were life-preserver cushions...
Nash redesigned its three lines with an eye to riding quality, shoving the motor ahead and synchronizing springs. Standard on the Ambassador but optional on its other lines is what Nash calls a "Santa Claus gear-because it delivers something for nothing." The Santa Claus gear is an overdrive for high-speed cruising...